Krisito, Dean 2006 Journal Feb. 26 Hite Cave, S Fork Merced River and Hell Hollow, on Hwy #49, Mariposa Co., CA Yesterday, Sean Schusile and I drove to Hite Cave on the 4WD road that branches off Jerseydale Rd. There was snow at higher elevations, but not much. We parked above Marble Point because of rocky spots on the road and hiked the rest of the way into Hite Cave. We arrived at about 3PM and cl downloaded the data from my data logger. We flipped rocks in the area where I've found salamanders before, near the two rock piles, but found none. The moss was fairly wet, and it was moist under the rocks, although it was drier a little way up the slope. We searched with headlamps for another 30min from about 7-7:30PM but found nothing. The next morning we walked north to the end of the road, flipping rocks in the extensive habitat on the slope along the way! At the last bit of talus habitat near the end of the road, Sean found an adult male under a big rock, which cl swabbed (HC4)(37.64001°N, 119.84924°W [WGS84, 8m acc.], 474m elev.). cl took a photo and released it. The weather was warm and mostly cloudy. We drove back through Mariposa and then on Hwy 49 to Hell Hollow. We stopped at the hairpin turn and parked. We searched from the car up the hill to the south, mostly on the east side of the main creek. The area had an [illegible] exposure and was grassy with oak, buckeye, poison oak, and scattered mossy shale rocks. Some of the rocks