Aug. 13, 1960 Squaw Vally, 6200 ft., Placer Co., Calif - we discovered we have a very nice house at Squaw Vally, with even more room than we all need! The first thing Tony and I did was see if there were any animals around. I got a pair of Icarea acmon, and we saw a few others and some cabbage whites. It is quite dry here. It is quite dry here, and the mountains don't look too moist, but there seems to be a little snow on Squaw Peak (it turned out to be clean granite). We are right across from Squaw Meadows, which looks like it might be good for Thamnophis, and is, unfortunately, unfortunately, privately owned. Tomorrow Tony and I plan to hike up to the Five Lakes, about 7600 ft. We have a squirrel in the back yard. Aug. 14, 1960 Unnamed Creek along Squaw Pk. Ski lift - Tony and I left home about 9:45 AM today for the Five lakes. The sky had a few faint clouds which rapidly gave way to very scattered cumulus clouds, but stayed quite warm although windy. We saw almost nothing until we got to 6450 ft. along the creek. I did get a Pieris occidentalis ♀ and saw a few ? Mylitta. The creek we are following is unnamed on my topos, but flows down from Squaw Peak between it and RT-22, and runs parallel to the Squaw Peak Ski lift (which unfortunately isn't running). In a damp area along a seepage, daisies, viburnium, and Phycoides were abundant, and I saw a (?gray) blue. At about 6500 ft. Tony found 3 frits along another seepage, and we each got one. Above this I got another and a S. melinius ♂. Then we spied a