Priorito, Dean 2005 Journal July 20 Pear Lake, Sequoia National Park, Tulare Co., CA I hiked from Wolverton trailhead up to Pear Lake. Dave Draber gave me a list of salamander sightings in the park, and several were on the Watchtower trail. The Watchtower itself as well as the area above it looked pretty good for salamanders, except that the area is now completely dry. I stopped at Heather Lake and searched a large seep zone from 1130-1230 (36.60008°N, 118.68683°W [WGS84], 16m acc.), 2845m elev.) on the south side of the lake. There was lots of water dripping down and plenty of good rocks, so the habitat seemed perfect but I found only 1 beetle for Dean S. I continued up to Pear Lake. It started to rain and thunder around 1330 and continued intermittently until about 2100. I camped at Pear Lake and decided to search the extensive seep and waterfall habitat at the south end at night. I went down to Ranger Rick's cabin to find Nance, Dean, Andrea and Cherie Briggs, who I thought might be staying there. Nance and Dean gave me a H. platycephalus they had found the night before near a waterfall at the S end of Pear Lake after 24 hrs of searching. I went back and searched much of the habitat at the S end of the lake from 2145-2330. There were at least 5 large waterfalls and a huge amount of great-looking seep habitat with lots of water flowing, but I found nothing. This area surely supports (or could support) a large population of salamanders, but they seem to be quite hard to find. The area I searched was around (36.59607°N, 118.66487°W [WGS84], 22m acc.), 2979m elev.).