July 22 Sierra Buttes, Sierra Co., CA (east) the east face, starting at a big rock down the mountain with lots of wet areas. We flipped whatever rocks we saw but found nothing until we climbed up to just below one of the large snow patches in the center of the east face. Bob pried up a mossy rock and reached into a wet crevice behind where the rock had been and found a large adult mole. It looked slightly different to me than others I had seen in the southern Sierra; its snout seemed shorter and its head broader. I found a juvenile under a large rock which I pulled out of some wet dirt. Both animals were found around 1:30 PM. Their habitat also seemed somewhat unusual, since they were both found under rocks in the ground, rather than in rock-on-rock areas, and because the rock at Sierra Buttes is not granite. I could not identify the rock but it was more uniform looking than granite, lacking the large crystals, and was clearly volcanic in origin. After finding the two salamanders we went back to regain Park and walked back to the car. The weather was beautiful all day, very sunny with a high of about 80° F. July 24 Mammoth National Park, Tuolumne and Mariposa Co., CA Jon Smith, Susan Cameron and I went to Cathedral Lakes to look for H. platycephalus. We hiked in to the lower lake and searched on the granite slope to the southeast of the lake (37°50'28.8"N, 119°25'17.5"W (NAD 27, 7m), 2750m). There was a lot of water flowing over the granite and lots of