Aug 17, 1960 Squaw Valley, Placer Co., Calif. should read "1.2, 1.3, +1.4 mi S.W. of Squaw Valley," respectively. However I don't feel like changing them. The weather today was very clear and warm, with hardly any wind. What wind was present was gusty in nature, and there were many long periods with no wind at all. Warmer in the evening. Aug 17, 1960 Kings Beach, 6230 ft., Placer Co., Calif.: while we were gone the rest of the family went to King's Beach on Lake Tahoe. They brought back a small Thamnophis elegans, which Mary caught at the lakes edge. See species account. Aug 18, 1960 Squaw Valley to Lake Tahoe, Calif., and back. This morning I got all the frogs I had around pickled, took color notes, and discovered I am running out of labels. After lunch we decided to go some where, but no two persons could agree on where to go or what to do. Dean (or Alan) wanted to go off the map (A.A.A. Tahoe region), I to Mt. Rose summit in Nevada. We went to Meek's Bay. Ugh! However we couldn't park here so we went to a public beach where we got stuck in the gravel. Getting out took all the fun out of Lake Tahoe, so we went to the lower (upper?) Truckee River to fish, about 1 1/2 miles from Tahoe City. Here I got 7 saepium, a doroty, and a longvini and a pair of zephars around a willow thicket. The lycaenids were on the sage-like plant. Tony got a zephav. Mary saw a "big gray snake", which escaped in a willow thicket. It was probably a Thamnophis e. vagrans. No one caught any fish,