vits, Dear 2007 Journal Dec. 16 On trial from Tres Colinas to Cerro Kamuk, Parque Internacional La Amistad, Pura Puntarenas, Costa Rica I arrived in Costa Rica on Dec. 13 to help a Costa Rican grad student at UCR, Guillermo Artavia, with a trip he planned to Cerro Kamuk, the highest point between Cerro Chirripo and Cerro Talveg (Panama) in the cordillera de Talamanca. Another student, Guido , and the herp collection manager at the UCR museum, Caché (Gerardo Chavez) are coming as well We left on Dec. 15 and drove south. We stopped on the south side of Cerro de la Muerte and turned stores in a short forest on the side of the road, where we quickly found 4 Bolitoglossa pesubra. We drive on to Tres Colinas, a small town of 10 people 28 Km off the road to San Nilo, and stayed in the alberque (very nice) run by the Solano family. Hugo Solano will be our guide. We started this morning at 07:00 and hiked ~ 1 hr uphill through scrub before reaching a beautiful forest of big oaks and bambusa (Chusquea sp.). We passed through a nice area with lots of downed wood but didn't stop until we got to the top of a 2nd uphill section, at "Cerro Platanos". We roled through leaf litter and looked under logs and bark for ~30min; I saw a single Theraps. We continued through an area of secondary scrubby forest, where we caught a juvenile Corophidum (9.1547° N, 83.06492° W [WGS84], 9m acc.), 2299 m elev. We then reentered beautiful primary forest. cl