Hutto, Sean 2008 Journal Cerro Negro Norte, Acreira de Garal, Heptu ojalal. Austavio (cat.) Jan. 4 ... through selectively logged and secondary forest on a decent gravel/sandy road. As we went on, the road became steep and muddy and our front wheel (+almost the whole car) fell into a big ditch covered by ferns. It took about an hour of digging and pulling with 2 pickups to get it out. The bad pickup had to pull both of us up a slope farther up the road. We got to Jose's house, a nice 2 room wooden shelter with a porch and downstairs open area, and then walked up the road for about an hour towards Cerro Negro Norte in a moderate rain. When we got about 45 min up, Austavo found a B. Rufescens in a log, and Carlos found an Ameiva undulata under a log. After ~1hr of walking (ca. 1150m) we started to see bromeliads in abundance, and opened a good number (maybe 20), but they were very full of water, too much for them to be good for salamanders. We did get 1 B. Rufescens in a bromeliad. We walked up to the top of Cerro Negro Norte, arriving at dark (~18:00) and then walked back slowly searching on the vegetation; it was cold and wet and we saw no amphibians and little insect life. We arrived wet and disappointed at the house at 21:30, having searched for all but the last half hour of that time. I was surprised not to have seen more, but it is rather odd for such a low area.