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Ravito, Dean
2006
Journal
July 3
Sixty Lake Basin, Kings Canyon National Park, Fresno Co., CA
Yesterday, I met Dean Schenille at Onion Valley in the morning and we hiked up Kearnsburg Pass, down to the PCT, and over Glenn Pass. On the north side of Glenn Pass, we hiked down over lots of snow and then up "Shortcut Pass", between Glenn Pass and the 60 Lake Basin. About 200 m NW of the bottom of Glenn Pass on the ridge, Dean found a subadult H. platycephalus. He then found 5 juveniles, all under rocks along snowmelt streams on granite, with grass and heather among the rocks. I found another [illegible] subadult at 1550 and collected it (SMR [illegible]) (36.79549° N, 118.41489° W [WGS84, 5 m acc.], 3454 m ele.). We found the salamanders in the same area where Tate Funstall had seen them several years ago.
We met Nancy Brodenburg and Tate in 60 Lake Basin and stayed at their campsite.
We spent this morning waiting for Nancy and Tate's supply helicopter and moving their supplies to camp. In the afternoon, we went to the lakes east of Mt. Clarence King (lakes #10-14) to do frog surveys and swabbled ~40 tadpoles (saw many more), but found no R. muscosa adults or metamorphs. We then hiked up to the waterfall south east of Mt. Clarence King where Tate and I collected Hydrobatotes suks last year. We started searching along the bottom of the waterfall and then climbed up the left (west) side. About halfway up the waterfall, Dean found an adult salamander at about 1500 under granite rocks with seepage. Dean, Tate and Nancy proceeded to find 5 other salamanders in the area, but two of the subadults escaped before I could swab them. This is the same location where I got adults from last year, so I continued with my Sixty Lake (2) [SL(2)]