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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