Cogswell 1950 "Journal" 16 Sugar Bowl Lodge (cont.) The stream itself, a raging torrent in the first few weeks of camp when 50 ft. deep banks of snow up in the Sugar Bowl fed it, became a trickle by end of August; it apparently held no aquatic life of significance until midsummer (see Cinclus mexicanus). VISITS: (include trips from lodge into forest N thereof for approx. .6 mi., i.e. to mouth of Mt. Judah tunnel on E.-bound S.P.RR. tracks, and similar distance along access road NNW of lodge; also around various cabins in forest & edge E to SE of lodge; also in immediate vicinity of stream or 6n flattish alluvial slope just across it) (For more distant visits to the Sugar Bowl on the SE, see below; for those to adjoining Cowgill Meadow & N. Base of Disney Mtn. & Crow's Nest peaks, see those names). -- June 17, 18, 19, 21, 28, 30; July 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 29, 30, 31; Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26. Sugar Bowl Lodge (= "Lodge") to Sugar Bowl, 7000-7400 ft., the latter being the in the "pocket" rimmed with mtns. on three sides -- 8243 ft. Mt. Judah to the NE, 8401 ft Mt. Lincoln to the SE, and 7950 ft. Disney Mtn. to the SW -- the area included on the visits listed below being in Sec. 29, R 15 E, T 17 N., Placer Co., Calif. VEG. TYPES: coniferous forest, grading from similar to that around lodge (see above) to denser, where not cleared, (Abies magnifica, Pinus monticola, Tsuga mertensiana, Pinus murrayana); subalpine chaparral, but scarcely developed on only a few rocky slopes (Quercus vaccinifolia, Arctostaphylos nevadensis, Spirea densiflora, etc.); riparian thickets (Alnus tenuifolia, Salix sp.); tall herbs in late summer on cleared or naturally open moist slopes; cliffs & boulders of the "walls" of the Sugar Bowl are of volcanic agglomerate, but provided habitat for only a few birds (Salpinctes; Nucifraga) VISITS (includes "part-way" hikes, if these extended beyond area around cabins): June 21; July 19, 20, 24, 29 31; Aug. 2. Star Lake, 9210 ft., & vicinity, on High Meadow-Freel Pk. trail, Carson Range SE of Lake Tahoe, Eldorado Co., Cal. VEG. TYPES: subalpine forest (Pinus albicaulis, Tsuga mertensiana, & few Pinus murrayana up almost to alt. of lake); narrow line of low shrubs around part of lake shore; otherwise rocky; cliffs SE of lake (see Job's Sister); mountain lake (with lots of trout). VISIT: July 23