D.A. Good 1986 journal [illegible] Cascante Camp (cont) 6 April (cont) The soil is very water resistant so it is becoming muddier + muddier as time goes on and the rain continues (rained most of the day today - except for a stretch of sunny weather about noon). Below camp is the Rio Cascante which we have been using for drinking + bathing. 7 April Up 600 - feeling much better. I had breakfast + walked down to the river for a bit - found an [illegible] Atelopus. From ca 800-1000 AM, Chris, Gary Braasch + I went with Chris Jeremy (one of the [illegible] men) to a spot where he thought he had seen a salamander in the leaf litter. He says it was the size of a Sphenomorphus but had very "noticeable feet." - We found nothing in this area of small streamlets just over the ridge S of camp, not even frogs. After returning to camp + drying out for a few minutes (it rained virtually all day today), I walked up the trail toward the 1000 m, following Craig, Federico + Manuel, who had gone up there earlier in the morning. I spent the next couple of hours opening 41 bromeliads - found no salamanders, only 1 frog. All of these bromeliads were between 0 and 3 m off the ground in deep 1º forest. By the time I had reached 4/5 of the way to the 1000 m camp (<800 m elev), I met Craig et al coming back down. They said the 1000 m area looked great for herps. - They had several, including a Gymnophthalmus. We all returned to camp (Cascante) by 2000 PM, when