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rozoneill: Mossy sign at the start of the hike
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rozoneill: Fern-flanked trails were a thing on this hike
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rozoneill: Bless his stubby little arms!
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rozoneill: A perfect trio of thimbleberry leaves
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rozoneill: Where fern, fairy bell, and the fruit thereof all meet
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rozoneill: Some of that jungle growing next to the trail
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rozoneill: Pathway through the greenery
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rozoneill: A moment of zen with a thimbleberry leaf
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rozoneill: The stillness of the forest on a late summer day
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rozoneill: There were still a few thimbleberries hanging about
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rozoneill: We did find one patch of Indian Pipe just about bloomed out
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rozoneill: Indian Pipe, gone to seed
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rozoneill: What a pair of slimeballs!
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rozoneill: Coastal huckleberry bushes sparkle like so many leafy diamonds
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rozoneill: The path disappears into the dark forest
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rozoneill: Individualism
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rozoneill: The trail leads and I must follow
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rozoneill: Green was definitely the color of the day
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rozoneill: Boardwalks kept our feet out of the muddy skunk cabbage bogs
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rozoneill: Very little light filtered all the way down to the trail
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rozoneill: Typical second-growth forest surrounding the trail
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rozoneill: Have to take advantage of every little sunbeam
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rozoneill: Trail through the mottled light and rampant greenery
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rozoneill: Salal leaves bask in the sunlight
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rozoneill: The delicate tracery of veins in a salal leaf
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rozoneill: If you like ferns and trails, then you will love this hike!
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rozoneill: The trail goes past a veritable army of fern fronds
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rozoneill: A collection of tinder fungus thrived in the forest duff
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rozoneill: Tinder fungus, busy recycling conifer needles
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rozoneill: A gnome plant (pink) and Indian pipe vie for the same patch of land