R.E. Johnson 1967 Journal May 21 Squaw Valley, Placer Co., California - 6100 ft, warm, 8:30-9:00 AM clear, sunny, still. Meadows covered with 1-2 ft of snow except on north side of valley near road where sun hits the valley floor for the longest interval. Here willows are beginning to bud, buttercups bloom, and grasses & sedges form a lush green cover. The ground is soft and wet with numerous streams running over it. The meadows are alive with singing birds. Most common are Red-winged & Brewers Blackbirds and Robins, but also present in good numbers are Spotted Sandpipers, Killdeer, Snipe, Starlings, and Savannah Sparrow(?). A pair of Mallards foraged in the wettest part of the meadow. A flock of Cassins Finches perched in an adjacent Lodgepole Pine. Two Swallows (Cliff & Tree) flew over the meadows, but too far away for positive identification. At 9 AM drove to Gondola Lift (Squaw Valley Lodge) & rode lift ($.50) to its terminus on east slope of the N^ ridge between Squaw Pk & Emigrant Pk. Wood Peewees sang from trees 100 yds below the upper Gondola Lift terminus (White Fir, Lodgepole Pine). From here I snowshoed north to the top of a ridge at the point where Shirley Lake Lift terminates (it comes