Roents, Dean 2006 Journal Swire Bear Lakes Basin, John Muir Wilderness NF, Fresno Co., CA (cut) July 27 at 1110 (SMR143: 37.32710°N, 118.81872°W [WGS84; 9m acc.], 3333m elev.). Despite extensive searching, we could not find any more. We then walked up Seven Halles Creek and up the outflow from Nee Lake. We briefly searched some seeps on the NW side of Nee Lake which looked quite good, but we found nothing. I could see another seep area on the SE side of Seven Hables Peak that looked very good. We walked to a meadow area north of Nee Lake where we saw a small B. canorus (37.32600°N, 118.81271°W [WGS84; 6m acc.], 3432m elev.). It looked like a thunderstorm was about to hit, so we went back to camp, but it never rained. At night, Dean searched the snow around Coronet Lake for ice crawlers while I searched the seep habitat below Coronet Lake from 2100-2210. I found an adult male H. platycephalus at 2157 in a fairly dry crack in the granite on top of soil amidst red mountain heather (SMR144: 37.53171°N, 118.81122°W [WGS84; 6m acc.], 3487m elev.). There were a few small pines in the area and sparse grass/herb vegetation. There were some seeps nearby without much water flowing in them; the salamander was to the west of the outflow creek (~10m) where most of the best seep habitat was. I climbed back up to the top of the seep area and headed back to camp, since I felt that I had searched the area extensively.