Field notes, v580
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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