Trail of Shadows, Longmire March 31 2012

As we arrived at Longmire, the weather changed from overcast to clear skies with only a few clouds to be seen.

The canopy over the trail of shadows was mostly Douglas fir, Western Red cedar and Western Hemlock, there were also other, rare specimens such as Alaska cedar and western yew.

the <1mile trail offered surprisingly little under story growth, mostly consisting of western hemlock saplings, and usually then only on nurse logs. There was also several feet of snow along much of the trail, and that I believe to be a rather large contributing factor in the lack of understory shrubbery. The trail itself wrapped around iron hot springs, interestingly The hot springs here bubbled with CO2, but unfortunately I cannot define the cause.

All species that I encountered here, and could identify, are defined in the attached observations.

Publicado el junio 5, 2012 03:10 TARDE por jjensen