Journal R.E. Johnson 1968 April 12, 68 Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. to Squaw Valley area Left Berkeley at 3:45 PM and arrived at US Forest Service campground near Squaw Valley at about 8 PM. Weather clear, still. The campground has less snow than it did on May 27 of last year! Tomorrow I hope to collect Peromyscus for Physiological Ecology Lab. Plan is to drive to Reno then south to Bishop and Big Pine, then up into the White Mtns. April 13, 68 Squaw Valley, Calif. to Reno, Nevada to White Mtns., Calif. Got up at 5:30 AM to the sound of Steller's Jays in the pine trees and Canada Geese overhead. Drove back to Truckee and then east to Reno and south on US 395. Stopped at the lower end of Crowley Lake and took a side road east to a boat landing area. A Brewer Blackbird was standing on the shoreline and 2 Eared Grebes (breeding plumage) were diving about 200 ft offshore. Two Common Loons were seen on the lake, each far from shore. A pair of Mtn. Bluebirds sat on a phone wire and a Sparrow Hawk flew over the flat sagebrush country adjacent to the lake. Drove on to Bishop, then east past the Bishop airport to the White Mtn Headquarters and beyond this up a dirt road south, then east up Belding canyon. Drove until only 4-wheel drive could cope with the steep loose road. Parked in sight of a cabin (had passed an abandoned one earlier). Hiked beyond