July 31 Reserva Chelemhá, Depto. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala Yesterday, we spent a long time organizing in Guatemala City, and were joined by Andrea Páiz, a biology student interested in amphibians. We drove to Jucurú and stayed in a hotel/Christian retreat, run by evangelicals, called Manos de Amor. This morning, we got a pickup that we had arranged to drive us north into the mountains to the Reserva Chelemhá, run by an NGO named VIROBON and run by a Swiss man. There was no forest along the road but the forest at the reserve is in good condition. We stayed in a really nice guest house at the edge of the forest (2000 m.) and hiked up to a point on the trail to the mirador (2400 m.) and back. We searched in logs from 14:30-17:00 but found nothing. The forest above the house looks a lot like the small forest at Finca Volcán and has big trees with scattered bromeliads (a big and a small species) and treeferns. At the highest point we reached, bromeliads were abundant (but full of water) and there was a lot more moss. We had an excellent dinner at the house and then searched along the trail from 20:00-22:30. Carlos found a B. helmini in front of the house, and we collected 9 more that were out foraging along the trail. Carlos and Andrea found a Graugaster (guazandí?) and Carlos collected a Gerrophis godmani. We may be too high here for Hylostantis, which is the main reason we came here, but it seems like there should be more species of salamanders at this site.