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17, 1960 Squaw Valley to Mombas Meadows, Placer Co., Calif. -
About 10:15 today Tony and I left for the five
lakes again. I had intended to leave about 8, but I
overslept a little (got out of bed about 9:30 A.M.). We
had no fruit at the house, so we bought half a dozen
apples at the store on the way. I got another white
at the ski lift to KT-22 (P. occidentalis), and a fruit,
eglais ♀, a little farther on. I decided we would
collect only at the best spots on the way up, and
since there was very little at any of them, this
was very easy to do. At the spot (6500 ft.) where
we got all the fruits on the 15th, there was nothing.
Tony did get a Rana, however, and saw a couple more
where we got the first two before. From here
we went to the tadpole pond and got a few more
tads of both types, all we saw. Most of the tlys
had transformed by this time, and there were several
without any tail at all. At the copper spot I got
some more editha, avota ♀, a pair of fruits that were
flirting, and a ♂♀ S. syluanus. The fruits would land
on the ground and one (♂?) would buzz around
the other excitedly. There was an Aeschna here,
also. We left this spot about 12:30, following a
jeep trail until we found some good looking growths
of the sage-like plant growing at the base of some rocks
above the road. This turned out to be a good thing
because, although we got nothing, we discovered we
were on the wrong road. We followed the correct
trail, Tony getting a few saepium on the way, until
we reached the pt where it crossed the creek at
7,200 ft. Here we got 4 Rana and saw 2 or 8 more.
The Frogs were in deep (6-12 inches) in the creek,
which were bordered much like the sites lower on the