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Route: Dean
2012
Journal
June 23
Cerro Boqueron, Mt. Mitagutha, Chigpas, Mexico
Woke up at 9:00 and waited until 11:00 for our guide to show up.
Walked up Cerro Boqueron to forest and took a different route from yesterday; starting at the point where we started finding salamanders yesterday. Hiked for 1.5hr along a stream and on a hillside before emerging in the area where all the cut wood is. Jorge found a [illegible] under a log. Once we arrived in the area w/ all the cut wood, I found 2 B.f. majiflaverescens under the trunk of a large pine log. It had been cloudy + misty in the morning and started to rain as we walked uphill, searching in logs. It was pouring by the time we got to the summit where I found a huge B.f. majiflaverescens under a rotter log + a [illegible] lepidurus inside a rotten log. The forest on the way up was mostly pine, but there were mostly broadleaf trees on the summit; some disturbance from logging + cattle grazing. Tons of big bromeliads that would be great in the dry season. I started to walk down + search arriving back at the town at 17:00; it rained hard until ~16:45. We wrote notes, got ready to prep, and made dinner. Went back out to look at 21:50, first along the road then starting on trail to Cerro Boqueron around 22:00.
I found a Grangster along the trail near town; it had stopped raining by this time. We walked fairly quickly up to the forest and searched along + near a stream at the point where we found the salamanders yesterday. I quickly got 4 Boltingerson (all or all that I saw, are franklini majiflaverescens) on leaves 1-2m off the ground, and 2 Grangster. Searched for a long time along the stream for Plutotruha sagrum that were calling, but couldn't find any; did get 2 Grangster along path near stream. I also got one