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Aug. 17, 1960
Five lakes to Squaw Valley, Placer Co., Calif.
would go after a frog and the other would wait
for the Heschna that would come by. Unfortunately
this system failed, as we got no Heschna, and often
missed the frogs. We followed the first lake back,
saw a pine white, got a frog sitting on a rock at
the water's edge (a dumb one, too!), and another
Thamnophis crawling along the shore. About this
time we ran out of water. The trip back was
mostly down hill. However, neither
got us felt much like collecting, but went after
fruits and hycaulids that came close.. At the Mombo
Meadows we saw a long tailed, furry mammal
(martin?) dash across the path. At the copper
spot (6900 ft) a perfect fruit landed on my shoe,
but I failed to get it - my legs were in the
way. Both Tony and I drank copiously from
the creek on the way down. We met a Ranger
working with the cable we had seen along the
creek. It was part of a communications system
between the top of Squaw Peak and the valley for
the Olympics, and was being picked up at this time.
At the bottom of the KT-22 ski lift we met one
of the persons who had been fishing at the Five
Lakes while we were there. This is the easy way:
Take the ski lift to the top of KT-22 and hike
down to the lakes (about 3/4 mi.). Tony got
a Pieris by the ice ring, and we got home about
4:30 P.M. We took the following pictures: the
meadow and pool at 6900 ft.; Mombo Meadows,
7440 ft., and the Five Lakes looking over the channel
where we took many Rana. I discovered all my
labels reading 0.6, 0.67 & 0.7 mi SW. Squaw Valley