Field notes, v4224
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Intro, Dean 2004 Journal Forester Pass to Lyndall Creek, Kings Canyon-Sequoia National Parks, Fresno-Fulda Co., CA July 6 Dean D. and I climbed the rest of Forester Pass in the morning. On the way down the south side, we stopped to flip rocks at some wet areas along the trail (36°41'28.8"N, 118°22'18.4"W (6m), 3862m) but found no salamanders after about 10 minutes of searching. Then we went to a large seep area above one of the lakes just west of the pass (36°41'44.2"N, 118°22'59.5"W (7m), 3896m) where I looked for salamanders for 1 hr and Dean looked for about 40 min. The habitat looked great- plenty of water, rocks, cracks in the granite, but we didn't find any salamanders. The elevation may have been too high for them. I checked out one other stream on the way to Lyndall Creek but found nothing. We camped at Lyndall Creek and checked out some granite outcrops on the west side of the creek that appeared to have seeps, but they were dry. The weather today was sunny and windy in the morning and afternoon, with a thunderstorm around 6 PM, and the evening was clear. July 7 Wright Lakes, Sequoia National Park, Fresno Co., CA Dean D. and I hiked from Lyndall Creek into the Wright Lakes Basin. We went into the upper part of the basin where there was a lot of seep habitat. We flipped rocks on the seeps from near the entrance to the basin on the south side to a spring near the upper end of the basin (36°38'00.6"N, 118°20'06.4"W (9m) NAD 27, 3509m) but didn't find any salamanders. The habitat looked decent to excellent, especially good