Selected photos (by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer) from our 16-17 October 2011 spider collecting trip to the mouth of Badger Gulch (on Rock Creek), Klickitat County, Washington. A marked (though informal) campground, lovely habitats and outstanding solitude made for a delightful place to spend the night. Although some habitats (notably the rocks) proved disappointing, we probably got a good spider sample, but due to a misplaced vial, might have barely squeaked by with 20-21 species actually making it back to the lab.

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Aerial view of campsite area     (Klickitat County, 2006)	Afternoon light on bare hillside; riparian zone in shadow     © Rod Crawford
Side canyon in the morning          © Laurel Ramseyer	Valley-bottom grassy habitat              © Rod Crawford
Vast pile of pine cones            © Laurel Ramseyer	One cone yielded Castianeira longipalpa               © Rod Crawford
Red fall color (while oaks still green)       © Rod Crawford	Dusk heralded a supremely quiet night              © Rod Crawford
Pine trunk and log        © Laurel Ramseyer	Dawn's first light hits the canyon rim              © Rod Crawford
Lots and lots of rocks              © Rod Crawford	…and stilll more rocks – but not one spider underneath     © Rod Crawford
Great-looking oak litter         © Rod Crawford	Siftable spiders, sparse at first, picked up later          © Rod Crawford
Neriene radiata in web        © Laurel Ramseyer	Dipoena lana, another catch from pine cones               © Rod Crawford

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