Routes, Dear 2006 Journal May 25 Pine Canyon and Sawmill Canyon, Inyo National Forest, Inyo Co., CA I drove up the road to Onion Valley and parked at Strays Meadow campground. I hiked up Pine Canyon, just south of the campground, where Chris Fitchell found Hybomantea last summer. I started at the level of the road and hiked about two-thirds of the way up the canyon. The creek was usually bordered by very dense willow and wild rose as well as pines and other trees. Many areas had horsetails and grasses and looked like the habitat at Shanna or Charlie Canyon. I flipped many rocks on the way up along and near the stream, but found nothing. The vegetation was too dense to easily access portions of the stream, so I didn't search those areas. The rock was white and seemed almost like travertine--I don't know what it was. About halfway up, the stream formed a series of messy cascades with caverns on the sides, which I searched unsuccessfully. I turned back at 1:30PM, having gotten a good way up the canyon (high point: 36.77247°N, 118.30369°W [WGS84, 10m acc.], 2122m elev.) in two hours of hiking. I hiked down to my car and drove north to the mouth of Sawmill Canyon. I crossed through dense cottonwood and willow trees across Sawmill Creek at the mouth of the canyon. I climbed over a talus slope on the south side of the canyon and reentered the vegetation below the rocky south wall of the canyon. After a brief search under rocks and logs along the stream, I found two juvenile H. platyphalus under granite rocks in leaf litter next to the stream (36.91242°N, 118.29037°W [WGS84, 14m acc.], 1512m elev.).