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DA Gord
1986
Journal
Twenty of Tapanti reserve, cont.
10 May
Up + out of the cabin (after breakfast + field notes, etc.) ca
920. We spent the morning preserving and taking tissues
from animals - just as we were finishing Mike Fogden
+ wife showed up and we spent the rest of the day
travelling around the reserve in their car, checking out
trail, etc.
We just drove south to the trailhead to Tres de Junio
on Cerro de la Muerte - here we met a couple of ICE men
doing tests on the water from one of their pipelines - they told
us the hike to the Cerro was 7 hours long. We walked up
a few hundred meters to see what it was like - it is a
broad swath of cut area through 2° growth - not very good
for a sunny morning such as this one. We then returned
to the car + drove back to the Rio Grande/Rio Dos
Amigas bridge + took the road toward the Rio Humo on
the west bank of the Rio Grande. This was largely an
exploratory trip to see where the road went. We stopped
ca 1200 at the ICE trail 0.6 km up the road + looked for
beeps - Found a tiny Eleutherodactylus proliferns, and
a Nototriton !!! (found by Keisa - see species account). We
looked for more Nototriton for about 45 minutes (it is a short
trail) but found none. We then proceeded up the road
another 2.2 km to its end at a long, rather impressive
tunnel through the mountainside which dead ends at
a big iron door on one side and an opening in the cliff
over the Rio Humo at ca 1625 m elev.
At 200 PM we drove back to the main rd and N to