Wits, Sean 2014 Journal Third Rocks and Drinell Lake, Fresno Co., CA (cont) I flipped some rocks but didn't find anything. Upstream, the creek was narrower and didn't have any areas out of the heavy water flow where salamanders could be. Overall, the habitat didn't look very good at all to me. I did find 2 Rana muscosa in the stream below the lake. I checked out some small peps south of the lake, where I collected some Helobia beetles for Sean Schaville. I hiked down and continued on to Drinell Lake basin, where I camped below the lakes. I walked up to Drinell Lake at dusk to check out another locality Bob Hansen reported to me ("Drinell Lake outflow). I started at the top of the outflow creek at 8:30 and walked down it in the canyon. The top part didn't look good for salamanders, but then the creek dropped off sharply and formed a series of small waterfalls. I found an adult female Hydromantes on a mossy ledge in the spray zone of a waterfall about halfway down the creek. I collected it (SMR #17) and continued down most of the length of the creek until it reached flat ground, but didn't see any more salamanders. The creek was mostly devoid of vegetation but the surrounding rock faces had stunted whitebark pines and willow shrubs. The weather was sunny and mild all day.