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I saw the salamander, big guy, 7-8" long. It walked about 3 yards in the snow, looping from the hole shown to another hole in the snow where it crawled into the leaves. Trail width approx 1.5". It was about 30 degrees. On a human trail in deciduous woods. It moved slowly, stretching its legs all the way forward with each step. Pix taken by Mike Bottini the following day, since I had no camera with me when I saw the beast. A biologist we contacted speculated that the salamander may have been diseased or could have been flooded from its burrow by heavy rains earlier in the winter (this would have been late December or early January).

This leucistic individual is Salamander C. This one has been photographed and observed since 2010 many times by Don Scallen and it had at least been alive two years before that, making it thirteen years old- two years older then me!

Found walking around on snow by Cynthia Day just north of Hartland Dam in White River Junction VT, an old logging road uphill from Sunrise Farm on Orizzonto Road. There is a manmade pond downhill from where she found it.