wmpe2000: snow field - remnants of previous winter's snow
wmpe2000: Sawmill Creek - mesmerizing meander
wmpe2000: Sawmill Creek falls into graywacke pool
wmpe2000: trail bridge through the temperate rainforest
wmpe2000: safety first even on the trail through the temperate rainforest - anti-slip crosshatch carved into log
wmpe2000: fallen Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce) proved to be a canvas for the trail crew
wmpe2000: Picea sitchensis root buttresses - perhaps this tree started in its preferred substrate (not too wet/not too dry) of a windsnapped spruce
wmpe2000: Herring Cove trail follows Sawmill Creek making its way down the mountain
wmpe2000: rocky stairs
wmpe2000: Oreopteris quelpartensis - Queen's veil mountain fern
wmpe2000: old fishing net provides traction on step up to a trail bridge
wmpe2000: narrow rock passageway
wmpe2000: drupes - Oplopanax horridus - Devil's club
wmpe2000: Siphula ceratites - waterworm - lichen forming fungi
wmpe2000: forest regrowth after deforestation when a sawmill was erected on the purpose named creek in 1956 to harvest trees to make rayon for the clothing industry
wmpe2000: Sawmill Creek on its way toward the mouth at Silver Bay