Rancho, Dean 2012 Journal 5 slope of Volcan Atitlan, Hecht, Suchitepequez, Solola (cont.) Jan. 17 ... by Jorge Duron Lopez, Juan Fernando Hernandez, Maria Fernanda Asturias, Julio Mendez, and Rodolfo Cortina. We drive ~20 min from Patulal to Finca San Jeronimo Miramar, an enormous finca that produces Parma brand cheese, which is ubiquitous here. Owned by Italians, managed by Juan Jose Chinchilla, who knows Juan Fernando. We got 2 really nice guest houses, plus a room above the bonfire's de cafe, where Carlos + I are staying. The finca has a big industrial part along the highway that is like a small city, - lots of housing, central park, church, etc. Met the Italian owners who told us about presence of oncercisis on finca - a little worrisome. Helped the bird team put up nets on the edge of the forest in the late afternoon. From the highway, road goes first through coffee, then cattle pasture, more coffee, and finally arrive at forest, goes into forest for perhaps nearly 1km, but we are not allowed to drive past edge. This morning, we waited until 10:40 for the mammal team to get back - they had a flat tire + had to put in pitfall traps. We picked up our guide, Teodoro Ciprian Lopez, on the way up + parked at the edge of the forest at 11:00. Walked to the end of the road - waited ~20 min for Ted to catch up. Then proceeded up path through somewhat disturbed forest w/ big broadleaved trees, heliconia, & thick understory to "El Moron", a point around 1750m on the border of Finca Jarrales + Parque Nacional Volcan Atitlan (I believe). At this point, bromeliads suddenly appear, some of them huge. Teodoro took off his shoes + climbed 10-15m up to get us some huge bromeliads. Opened 21 bromeliads and got 9 D. engelhardti, of which we released 4 juveniles. Continued up path, opened 24 more bromeliads (again, many from