arts, Sean 2008 Journal Las Calvarias de Albres, Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de las Minas, Depto. El Progress Guatemala July 27 We packed everything up this morning, loaded the mules at 10:00, and got going on the trail down at 10:30. We went through the cloud forest without searching much and only started looking in bromeliads when we reached that pine forest around 230m. I found a juvenile B. helmrichi in a medium-sized bromeliad on a pine tree, which wasn't very wet since it was tipped to the side slightly. Most of the other bromeliads were filled with water. Nancy, Craig, Rawi, Jed, Carlos, Bianca and I searched in bromeliads and logs from ~ 11:00 - 14:00 without finding anything else. This site looks like it should have Cryptotriton, and would probably be much more productive in the dry season. We had lunch at Finca la Tornonta (La Trinidad), where the cars were parked, and Carlos caught a [illegible] septaigius modustus. We drove down the road to a nice patch of liquidambar forest and searched in huge but very wet bromeliads for ~ 30 min (7 people, 15.0586°N, 89.93621°W [± 10m], 171 m elev.). Carlos found a Ithyohyla hypometye in a bromeliad; again, this area seemed like it would be much better for salamanders in the dry season. B. helmrichi and Cryptotriton should be here. We drove back to the Finicento Auyton in San Agustin Acasagustlan and had a very long discussion on Guatemalan biogeography, involving lots of rum and resulting in a framework for future cooperation and research.