Field notes, v4225
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Ravito, Jean 2006 Journal June 5 Half Dome and Nevada Falls, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa C., CA (sant.) ... the snow field. Swab samples were: Swab ID Age class Sex H1 (Half Dome) Adult Male HO2 Adult Female HO3 Adult Female HO4 Adult Female HO5 Adult Female HO6 Subadult We hiked down to Nevada Falls and then took the Mist Trail to Vernal Falls. Just below the top of the falls, me stepped in a small cave-like area along the trail (37.72708°N, 119.54348°W [WGS84, 30m acc.], 1538m elev. Terrain Navigator) where I found a juvenile H. platycephalus under a mossy rock around 7:30PM. The area was dripping wet from above and extremely mossy. We found two more juveniles and a subadult, which I got lumeral and ventral swabs from (VFI). It was getting dark as we left and hiked down to Happy Isles, and then returned to Berkeley.