Kanto, Dear 2007 Journal Silver Creek, White Mtns., Kings Cr. and Lake George, Mammoth Lakes Basin, Mono Cr., CA May 22 I spent the morning trying to regulate the temperature on the fridges and environmental chamber for my physiology experiments. Then we drove up to Silver Creek in the White Mtns. N of Bishop. We parked where the road turns N away from the stream (37.40112°N, 118.22158°W [WGS84], 6m acc.), 2491m elev. and searched here for ~30 min. There are lots of birch trees along the creek, which has a good flow of water. I found some good looking spots for Batrachoseps, with rocks and moist leaf litter similar to the B. sample site at Barrel Spring, but didn't find any. We ate a quick lunch and then walked upstream, stopping to search at 2 spots. Both looked good - I had a small cascade and the other had limestone with moss and leaf litter. These seem like good Batrachoseps habitat. We searched a bit at the point where the canyon branches (37.39684°N, 118.21114°W [WGS84], 7m acc.), 2496m elev. and then headed back. In all we searched from 12:30 - 16:30. After dinner, we drove to Lake George, where it was quite snowy. We found 2 juvenile and 1 adult male R. platycephalus in ~15 min of searching in the seep, and Sean found an icecrawler and a Helixia on the draw. When we got back to OVL, I found that 4 of 5 salamanders from Charlie Canyon that I put in the small fridge were frozen. One wasn't totally frozen and recovered completely. Another was frozen and slowly regained the ability to move. The last two were dead, and I had to preserve them (SMR246+247). I put all the salamanders at 15°C - can't trust the small fridges.