Of course, I've gone on many more hikes so I'll just keep posting pictures of the area in this thread.
I saw this tree on the side of the road and couldn't help but stop and get up close to it, and see what the woods behind it are like. This is THE largest yellow cedar I've seen.
So gnarly, so majestic.
It's very big around (for a yellow cedar)
False Lily of the Valley
Interesting ground plants
Bear-bread
Just some forest
Evidence of bark being stripped by natural causes as well as by natives for cedar bark weaving
An unimpressive mushroom
Just a tree
This is as colorful as fall gets here. The berry bushes turning color.
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Interesting fungus.
A cute little fern
Some sphagnum bog - home to hundreds of dormant D. rotundifolia
Bog cranberries in their prime. SO good.
More evidence of bark being stripped on yellow cedars for cedar weaving.
Fungus? lichen, I think?
I have a thing for cute little brooks, this one is no exception
An impressive roadside lichen formation