Fresno, Dean 2006 Journal Sierra Bear Lakes Basin, John Muir Wilderness, Sierra NF, Fresno Co., CA July 26 Dean, Schivile and I hiked from the Pine Creek trailhead up to the Bear Lakes Basin over Mt. Pass. On the way, we saw hundreds of Bdfo tadpoles and several small toads (B. cayugus, I think) in moisten habitat along the trail above Honeycomb Lake. The weather was cloudy in the afternoon but it didn't rain. We camped in the Bear Lakes Basin just east of Grant Lake. We searched in the seep area at the outlet from Grant Lake towards Little Bear Lake from 2130-2230 but found no salamanders. This is where I found one last year. We did collect a lot of Nebria for Dean. I pulled my data logger out at 2210 and deployed it at 2250. I was somewhat surprised not to see any salamanders, since conditions in the seep looked good, but this seems to be a hard site to find them at. There was still a lot of snow all around the basin. Sierra Bear Lakes Basin, John Muir Wilderness, Sierra NF, Fresno Co., CA July 27 Dean and I walked down to the bottom of the seep habitat below Grant Lake, to the area where I found a single H. platycephalus last year. We flipped rocks from 0934-0951 but found nothing. We then followed the creek down from Little Bear Lake west and then walked south to a large area of seep habitat, ~300m N of the Seven Adels Lakes west of Noe Lake. We started searching at 1045 and stopped at 1130. The habitat looked great, with extensive seepage over bare exfoliating granite with a southern or western exposure. Dean found an adult female H. platycephalus under a rock.