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Hunts, Dean
2004
Mt. Lyell Salamander
(Hydromantes platycephalus)
Grinnell Lake outflow, just south of Grinnell Lake,
John Muir Wilderness, Fresno Co., CA
37°27'21.3"N, 118°51'13.4"W (NAD27m), 3048m
August 8
I found an adult female salamander on a mossy ledge in
the spray zone of a small waterfall along the outflow creek
at the south end of Grinnell Lake. The salamander was
found at 9:30 PM and appeared to be out feeding.
The salamander was on the east side of the water in the stream
but the rock it was on was right in the center of the
canyon that the stream flowed through. I only found this
single individual despite extensive searching.
SMA #17
Cathedral Lakes, Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne Co., CA
August 10
2:15 AM. I found an adult female salamander in one
of the seeps to the south of lower Cathedral Lake. It
was in a mossy area near a crack in the granite with
just a trickle of water running over it. The granite face
did not have much water in most places, and a lot of the
other mossy areas were dried out.
37°50'27.4"N, 119°25'23.0"W (NAD27m), 2757m
Note: all GPS elevation readings from today appear to be too
low based on comparison with maps.
SMA #18