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04/14/24 - Little River Trail - Once again but a little farther Often, when we travel, we'll find a restaurant we like so much that we'll cancel our reservations elsewhere and go back a second or even third time. This time, it was the Little River Trail. We liked our hike so much, that we came back later in the week and retraced our steps and went a little bit farther. Earlier, we had made it to the second log bridge. This time, we made it across and all the way to the little waterfall. We were rewarded, not just with the waterfall, but with a cliff side covered with fawn lilies. There were trilliums as well, now further along, and even a calypso orchid which a fellow hiker mentioned to us as we compared notes about the trail. The trilliums have yet to peak, but more and more of them are out. We'll be back again, maybe not this week, but soon.	One of the passages
The river, blues, browns and greens	A rock covered with life
Fawn lilies	Another
Yet another	Just a distinctive leaf
A trillium	The waterfall
A close up of the waterfall	Another trillium
And another	The fawn lilies again, on our way back
The river again	The trail along a cliff face
More of the Little River	Yet another forest view
A double trillium	Yet more trilliums
More of the forest browns and greens	Mushrooms
Forest friends	That calypso orchid

Keywords: little river, trillium, waterfall

04/11/24 - Little River Trail Next on our list of spring hikes and trillium safaris was the Little River Trail. We started at the brand new parking lot at around 1100' and made our way down to the river, across the bridge, then up again to continue along the trail. Were there trilliums? Yes. Were there a lot of trilliums? No, net yet, but they are coming out. We also saw a lot of mushrooms, almost certainly poisonous, and, of course, the river itself. We also saw a frog. It wasn't all that long ago that people were worried about frogs, but we've been seeing and hearing them more often lately. We saw this frog by the side of the trail. It was camouflaged but not well enough, so we got a good look. Either we've been getting better at spotting frogs, or there are a few more of them around.	They're back!
More trilliums	And even more
The fourth plague	The trail, almost mystical
The river	There are some amazing rock walls.
Violets	More of the river
Even more river	Yet even more
A stretch of trail	Mushrooms, probably toxic
More poisonous mushrooms	There's a little seasonal waterfall across the river that we always look for.
Another sign of spring	More rock wall
Typical of the region	Even more deadly mushrooms
Young false mock Solomon's seal	Another trillium
A bit more of the river	Spring water flow

Keywords: little river, spring, trillium

03/19/24 - Little River Trail It's still early spring along the Little River Trail. The big news is probably the new parking lot and relocated trail entrance. Otherwise, the trail is its wonderful self with dark forests and shining river.	We always check for this seasonal waterfall.
That waterfall again	The river
More river

	Plant life
A little stream	More of the forest
More of the river - bright sun and dark forest	A bit of the trail
Is this the spirit of the forest?	Some more trail
Plant life	The portal
One of the bridges	Another fork of the river

Keywords: little river, spring, waterfall

11/07/23 - Autumn on the Little River Trail We've been following autumn on the Little River Trail. The leaves have been falling. The river is rushing. Colors have been changing. Each time we visit, the trail and the river have changed.	A glimpse of the Little River
An old log	More of that log
Fallen leaves	Forest scene
Another view of the Little River	More flowing water
Yet more of the river	The forest trail
There's always something fascinating to catch the eye.	Green and brown
One of the bridges	Funghi, possibly planted by that 18th century mycologist Funghibility Brown
More of the thinning and changing forest	One of the moss and fern covered rock walls
More leaves	Changing color
An autumn montage	Ghost plant
The trail ambience	The thinning forest
Another ghost plant	Slime mold!

Keywords: autumn, little river

10/18/23 - Little River Trail We waited for the rains to start before getting back to the Little River Trail. That way we can hear the river roaring as we follow its path. We were pleased to see the new parking lot a bit farther down the road. It should be easier to park safely on busy days. They redid the start of the trail a bit, but once the initial descent start, it's the familiar trail. The theme for this hike seems to have been mushrooms. There were lots of them. The theme for this year seems to be frogs. We've been seeing and hearing quite a few of them. There was a real tiny one at the base of a tree. Now that the rains have come, we'll be getting back to Little RIver more often, though it will soon be too cold for amphibians.	The theme for the hike
Some color change	Green and black water
More mushrooms	Yet more
The early autumn forest	The Little River
More of the river	Yet more
The trail	There's always something to look at.
We have to find out what those red things are.	Are they a fungus?
More mushrooms, definitely a type of fungus	And yet more
Some tiny mushrooms	More of the forest, with mushrooms
Can you spot the frog?	A blurry closeup
An old stump	Another fork of the river
Another view	Looking upstream

Keywords: little river

09/29/23 - Little River It has been a very dry summer, so we haven't been hiking the Little River Trail. This trail is at its best when the river is flowing in full spate, so we've been waiting for the autumn rains. They've been coming, so we headed up to the hills to see how it fared. It's still early in the fall, but the river was roaring and the trail lush and green. We even found a frog on the trail. There were trilliums and tiarella, well past bloom, but still green. This seems like a good for them. The trail is much itself, though they've moved to parking area and the trailhead a bit up the road. It's a much bigger lot and the trail still begins with a descent to cross one of the forks of the river.	Mushroom season
The Little River Trail with a bit of mist	More of the trail, dark trees and a lot of green
More trail	More trees and the gateway to the river
An old nurse log	More forest
The Little River	Another view of the river
Yet another view	And another
Pacific dogwood	Pacific dogwood covering the ground
More green forest	More dark trees
The bridge	Some old trilliums still hanging on
The frog	Another view
More trilliums	The Little River from the first bridge

Keywords: autumn, little river, trillium

06/22/23 - Little River Trail With the Hurricane Ridge Road still closed, we took a hike along the Little River Trail. It was our usual hike to the second log bridge. It's another summer hike with the trees full of leaves and the vegetation lush. It always gets better when the trail leaves DNR land and enters the national park. That's shortly before the trail descends to the river which was flowing nicely this time of year.	Early on the trail, in DNR land
Our first Pacific dogwood	The little bridge
Bloodroot	More dogwood
Close up Pacific dogwood	Even more
The Little River	A log over the river
False Solomon's seal, past bloom	Light and dark
Rough stone	One of the log bridges
Blue water	Another look at the Little River
The river IS one of the highlights of this trail.	Looking down at the river
Lush green forest	A piece of the trail
Devil's claw	A caterpillar - We saw a fair number of these.

Keywords: little river, summer

05/06/23 - On to the Waterfall We're not sure how it happened, but we were more energetic than usual on our last Little River Hike. We usually turn around at the second log footbridge. This time we continued. If nothing else, we knew there was a pair of waterfalls with a good overlook beyond. So, we made our way over the second bridge with its peculiar turn where one changes from the low log to the high log. Then we went on. The trail climbed so we had great views of the river below. There were trilliums and a great bank of fawn lilies. (We had been calling them columbines, but it turns out we had guessed wrong. What we had been calling shooting stars were actually columbines. This is what happens when one is enjoying the beauty of the trail and not fighting with a flower identification app.) Then came the waterfalls, maybe 20-25 minutes past the bridge. Two tributaries meet here, and with the start of the snow melt and the recent rains, they were full of roaring waters.	Gateway to the forest
Trilliums	A fawn lily
Another fawn lily	A forest scene
More trilliums	The trail
The river, one of many photos	One of the waterfalls
The other waterfall	The twin waterfalls
A young trillium, not blooming yet	Mahonia
Along the trail	Living rock walls
More of Little River	Another fawn lily with its mottled leaves
Even more of the river	So many fallen logs
Another bank of trilliums	Another stretch of the river
One of our rain forest trail companions	Last view of the Little River

Keywords: little river, trillium, waterfall

04/24/23 - Little River It's spring, and the Little River Trail is loaded with trilliums. We walked out for an hour, to the second bridge, and trilliums lined our way. The Little River Trail starts on DNR land and heads into the national park, so things keep getting better and better. It's still early in the season, so we expect to see more trilliums and lots of other wild flowers as the season progresses.	A trillium not far from the trailhead
The Little River	More trilliums
A piece of the trail	Another trillium
Another bit of the river	Rushing water
Another view	And another
Yet another trillium	An a happy pair
Blue river	A trillium patch
And another	And yet more

Keywords: flowers, little river, spring, trillium

11/04/22 - Little River in the Rain The Little River Trail is another great rainy trail. The Little River may be little, but it puts on a good show especially in the rain. We'll confess, we wore rain pants and rain coats and broad brimmed rain hats and waterproof boots. We were prepared. It rained the whole time, but we managed to stay comfy and dry. The forest was surprisingly bright. Gray days mean fewer shadows, so one can see farther through the forest and in greater detail. It also helped that a lot of leaves had fallen, so we had a wonderful mysterious sense of being in an enchanted forest. Perhaps it was the proximity to Halloween. Perhaps it was the rain. The trail starts on DNR land, but about 35-40 minutes in, it enters the national park. The trees get older and the forest gets wilder. Then the trail descends and follows the river more closely. We headed upstream pausing to admire the rapids and the full river lapping fallen logs. We made our way to what we call the Healing Pools. It's a good spot to settle with one's feet in the water after a hard week of hiking. We didn't do that this time, not on a cold day in the rain.	Crossing the Little River's other branch
Along the trail	A mushroom
More of the trail	More mushrooms
Descent to the river	A river view
Logs over the river	More river
Another look at the Little River	Another fallen log
Blue and gray water, green forest	Logs and rapids
A bit of snow on the trail	Another peek at the river
Fall foliage	No caption necessary - It should be obvious.
More snow	More trail
Another gateway	The footbridge
An old stump	A skull in the haunted forest

Keywords: halloween, little river, autumn

10/22/22 - Little River Trail With Woodpecker It rained. At long last, autumn has begun. We celebrated with a walk along the Little River Trail. The leaves are thinning, others are turning bright yellow. The river is running more briskly. We saw slugs and snails and many mushrooms. We also saw a woodpecker hammering away oblivious to any audience.	An old stump in the forest
The trail accented with gold	Another bit of trail
Little River and a log	More of Little River
Cool water	Less clumsy people could cross on those logs.
A snail	A shroom
More mushrooms	And even more mushrooms
The green skull - Halloween is coming	Slight mist on the trail
Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Woodpecker	Woodpecker
Woodpecker	A golden bowl
A freshet	Little River again

Keywords: autumn, little river

09/17/22 - A Little Surprise on the Little River We hiked the Little River Trail for a ways. It goes all the way up to the Hurricane Hill Trail, and we are never going to hike that far. It's late summer, so we kept our eyes open. To our surprise, we saw a small frog beside the trail. Given the bright sunlight filtering through the thick foliage and the frog's excellent camouflage, it was a wonder that we could spot it. We also spotted some mushrooms and berries, and there was the Little River itself.	Along the trail
Can you spot the frog?	Somehow we did
Tree ears	Pacific dogwood berries
A battered but unbowed trillium	The Little River
Rapids	More of the river
A lone blue berry	An early Halloween decoration, a green skull
Another tree ear	False Solomon's seal berries

Keywords: little river, summer

06/14/22 - Little River to the Healing Pools We weren't up to a longer walk, but we wanted to get back to the Little River Trail, so we only took the trail up for a ways. Most of the trilliums were gone, but the mock Solomon's seal was out and smelled wonderful. There was also tiarella and a surprise, Pacific dogwood, a whole patch of it along the trail.	Mock Solomon's seal
Tiarella	Mushrooms
A few trilliums still white	Some older trilliums turning pink
One of the passages	Pacific dogwood
More of the Pacific dogwood patch	A big trillium
A very lush trail now	The river
Another view of the river	The trail
Rushing waters	Fallen logs over the river
Early for Halloween	A warning?
Mock Solomon's seal	One of those pretty and probably toxic mushrooms

Keywords: halloween, little river, trillium