Journal R.E.Johnson 1969 190 April 12 Squaw Valley, Calif., & Peavine Mtn., Nevada ago but later in the season. Today the wind made hiking difficult & probably also would prevent rosy finches from feeding here. Plants (with one exception) were not even beginning to turn green & resume obvious growth or activity. Finally I crossed the ridge again onto the east slope & stumbled onto a pair of feeding rosy finches on a patch of bare ground about half down from the top of the Emigrant Lift toward the Shirley Lake Lift. The latter was operating & very busy so that collecting was a bit inadvisable but I tried it anyway & obtained both birds. Another was seen feeding further down toward the Shirley Lift & would have been impossible to collect without being seen & heard. I snowshoed down past the top of the Gondola Lift where I met Carol (Denny's old roommate) & then hiked (no snowshoes) down to the valley on the ski runs. In route I met a ski instructor who knew some bird watchers was familiar with rosy finches. He (Paul Arthur) said to contact him & he'd get me free tickets up the mtn. when I wanted to go up next! Drove back to Reno & up to the top of Peavine Mtn (left Squaw at 4 PM & arrived on top at 5:15 PM). Hiked over snow (1-4 ft deep) to the shaft. The ground around the shaft was completely bare (windblown), but the shaft was totally obstructed by snow about 6 feet down. There were no rosy finches present & no doubt none could use it in this condition.