Field notes, v4224
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wito/Dean 2004 Journal July 24 Mossy devices so the habitat looked very good. We searched from 12:30-1:30PM but found no salamanders. There weren't many rocks to flip. At dusk we drove to the entrance to Yosemite Valley and walked up to the base of Bridalveil Falls. Jon and I found 3 salamanders in the spray zone to the right of the falls at 8:40PM (SMR #12,13). They must have just emerged to feed. I collected two and we left. We drove by a Grotalus vinipes on the road just southeast of the Wanoma Tunnel. By the time we turned around and drove back, it had been run over, so we salvaged it. The weather today was sunny and mild. August 4 Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne and Mariposa Co., CA I drove to Yosemite Valley at night and went to Camp Curry to look for Hydranemates. On my previous trip, we had looked at a spring SW of Curry Village that looked promising for salamanders, since Bob Stibbins had collected one from that area. I went back at 11:30PM to look at the spring (37°44'07.6"N, 119°34'25.1"W NAD 27, 1037m) but there was almost no flowing water left. I flipped some rocks but found nothing. I had planned to check out Cathedral Lakes but it was too late at night to hike in, so I drove on and stopped at some springs east of Tioga Pass along Rt. 120 (37°57'09.7"N, 119°12'50.4"W (NAD27, 9m), 2545m). There was a lot of flowing water and the habitat looked good, although the rock didn't seem to be granitic. I found no salamanders.