Rants, Sean 2004 Mt. Lyell Salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus) Sierra Buttes, Sierra Co, CA 39° 35' 27.2" N, 120° 38' 12.7" W (NAD 27, 8m), 2200m July 22 Bilt Hansen found a large adult male salamander after flipping a rock out of some wet ground and reaching into a mossy crevise behind it. The rock was just below a large snow patch in the center of the east face of the Buttes and was in a grassy area with some small shrubs and a few mountain lomebck trees. I found a juvenile under a large rock stuck in the dirt just downslope from where the first one was found. The ground was quite moist but there was no flowing water right at that spot. The rock in the area was not granite but instead was some type of volcanic rock that lacked the white crystals and black flecks of granite. Both salamanders were found around 1:30 PM. SMR # 10, 11 Lower of Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa Co, CA July 24 8:40 PM. Jon Devitt and I found three adult salamanders out on mossy rocks in the spray zone of the west side of Bridal Veil Falls (37° 42' 58.2" N, 119° 39' 04.6" W (NAD 27, 20m), 1222m). The salamanders were in an area that was wet with spray and next to the cliff wall, but without any flowing water. The surrounding area was rocky and devoid of vegetation. SMR # 12, 13