Album of East Fork Mission Creek Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 9 June 2015 spider collecting trip to the East Fork of Mission Creek (mouth of Peavine Canyon), Chelan County, Washington. Selected by default (thanks to a blocked road), it turned out to be quite a nice site that produced a new state record for rare Chrysso nordica. The effect on Laurel of unseasonable heat cut our day short, but we squeaked by with a sample of 22 species. See Laurel's account too!
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East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington, 2013 aerial photo Laurel Ramseyer's Prius car at East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Field site            (2013 aerial photo) New car on the old road              © Rod Crawford
elderberry at parking area, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington decommissioned Mission Creek Road, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Elderberry shrub at parking area       © Rod Crawford Mission Creek Road, decommissioned!              © Rod Crawford
thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington Peavine Canyon Creek, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Thimbleberry along Mission Creek       © Rod Crawford Trickle creek from Peavine Canyon        © Rod Crawford
Laurel Ramseyer tapping pine cones, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington open Ponderosa pine stand, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Laurel tapping pine cones in rare shade     © Rod Crawford Not much shade in the pine stand!                © Rod Crawford
fire-scarred pine bark, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington pine cone with understory oregon-grape, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Fire-scarred pine bark           © Laurel Ramseyer Pine cone among the Oregon-grape             © Laurel Ramseyer
Linenitis lorquini Lorquin's admiral butterfly, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington butterflies mudding by Peavine Canyon Creek, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Limenitis lorquini          © Laurel Ramseyer I can spot 10 butterflies mudding in this picture           © Rod Crawford
swallowtail butterfly, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington wild rose thicket, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Swallowtail visits the mud          © Rod Crawford Wild rose thicket          © Rod Crawford
sifter with creekside alder litter, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington grass-weed-herb field, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Sifting streamside alder litter         © Rod Crawford Grass-herb field produced the best spiders              © Rod Crawford
mysterious trail heads up slope from parking area, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington Theridion neomexicanum, theridiid spider, swept from field, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Mysterious trail goes NW from junction      © Rod Crawford Theridion neomexicanum swept from field & roadside         © Rod Crawford
pearly-everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington rare theridiid spider Chrysso nordica, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Pearly-everlasting in bloom       © Laurel Ramseyer First Washington specimen of Chrysso nordica!         © Rod Crawford
looking up cliff, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington trailside rock face, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Looking up sun-heated cliff         © Rod Crawford Mystery trail passes this rock face         © Rod Crawford
balanced rock formation, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington balanced rock formation, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington
Seemingly balanced rock           © Laurel Ramseyer All sorts of rock formations          © Laurel Ramseyer
hot, exposed slope in pine stand, East Fork Mission Creek at Peavine Canyon, Chelan County, Washington Rod Crawford enjoys a shake at Mountain High Hamburgers, Easton, WA, on 9 June 2015
Does this look blazing hot? It was!      © Laurel Ramseyer Afterward, Rod nurses his peppermint milkshake         © Laurel Ramseyer

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