Bonto, Dear 2010 Journal Jan. 14 Uspantan, Depto. Quiche, Guatemala Abril and I arrived in Guatemala on Jan. 12 and met Carlos, Jed, Lisa (USAC student) and Alejandra (Del Valle student). Yesterday, drove to Uspantan + spent night. This morning, met Laura (Peace Corps volunteer) in tourist office. Drove to a point Km N of town on the road to Corazal. Walked uphill + Jed took wrong path and got lost. We opened a few bromeliads and worked along the trail looking under logs and bark. Abril found a B. lividus under a log; I got one as well, but it escaped while someone was taking photos. The trail eventually ends up at both a town and a crater called Macalajia. We found Jed again near the top, where oak forest and scrub abruptly meet an oak forest with large trees, lots of moss and a bamboo understory. We searched from 14:00-15:00, and Alejandra found a Phlebotrya and a B. rostrata under moss. Both Abril and Carlos found a B. rostrata under logs. We started downhill and Abril got a B. cuhumatana under a log. Stopped in an area of decent oak forest without many big trees but w/ lots of good bromeliads. Opened bromeliads for ~45 min and got 5 juvenile B. cuhumatana before it got dark. Although vegetation is somewhat disturbed, salamanders seem to be abundant. The B. cuhumatana vary in color from almost black without pattern to very light brown with an orangish tail, and many have a B. rostrata-like reddish dorsal stripe. The weather was fairly cold but sunny.