Ronto, Sean 2008 Journal Allores calino, Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, above San Augustin Acasagustlan, Dept. El Progreso, Guatemala May 29 This morning, we hiked from the cabins to Cerro Pinalo. The cloud forest was very nice, with huge trees and dense epiphyte growth and some bamboo, and extended up to about 2750m, where the vegetation changed to conifer forest. Alnus and pine were dominant, with some cypress and broadleaf trees. There was a thick understory of shrubs, and several of the same plants I saw in the gardens in Costa Rica. We saw jaguar and tapir prints in mud just at the start of the conifer forest, and heard quetzals just below there. We hiked to the top of Cerro Pinalo to where a small house and an antenna are (), and searched unsuccessfully in logs for ~20 min in secondary pine forest (15.08103°N, 89.92078°W [WGS84, 8m acc], 2762m elev.). On the way up to this spot, we caught a huge Corrophidion godmani that was tracking. This area reminds me of the spot near Chichiguan, San Marcos where we found P. rex. It seems possible that a high elevation salamander lives in this pine-for forest. We walked down another old road through good mixed conifer-broadleaf forest for ~30 min more and searched in some logs but found nothing. We walked back to the cabins, ate lunch and swatted and photographed the animals we had collected. We realized we had forgotten the formalin after killing the reptiles, so we used ethanol for those and kept everything else alive. I briefly felt very sick but decided to go with