Album of Johnny Creek Campground Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 4 November 2016 spider collecting trip to Johnny Creek Campground on Icicle Creek (near Leavenworth), Chelan County, Washington. A prediction of fine weather gave us great hopes for this site, which were not realized! Sunlight hit the campground only briefly (there is a high ridge to the south); habitats were very wet despite at least 2 days since the last rain. A few habitats were productive, but others yielded little or nothing. We did manage to get 22-23 species, enough to check off this area on the map, and 2 of the microspiders I sifted look very unfamiliar, so the day was not wasted, though at the time, I was sorry I talked Laurel into it!
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2015 aerial photo Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington fall scene on US Highway 2 near Nason Creek, Chelan County, Washington
Wide spot between road and stream (Chelan County, 2015) Lovely fall scene along the highway          © Rod Crawford
fall closure gate of Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington leaf-strewn road into closed Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Campground closed for the season      © Laurel Ramseyer So the cottonwood leaves take over the road          © Laurel Ramseyer
fall-colored larch trees in Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington drift of yellow cottonwood leaves, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Fall-colored larch trees           © Rod Crawford Drifts of yellow cottonwood leaves            © Laurel Ramseyer
empty camp bullentin boards, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington camp outhouse, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Bulletin boards: no bulletins, just spiders    © Rod Crawford Laurel found good spiders on camp buildings              © Laurel Ramseyer
Philodromus californicus on egg sac, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington female Callobius spider from camp buildings, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Philodromus guarding egg sac           © Laurel Ramseyer Callobius from camp buildings                  © Rod Crawford
theridiid spider Dipoena lana from buildings, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington harvestman Leptobunus parvulus on outhouse, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Dipoena lana from buildings              © Rod Crawford Leptobunus californicus on camp outhouse               © Laurel Ramseyer
Rod Crawford sifting leaf litter in Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington vine maple leaf llitter in Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Rod seeks sparse litter spiders        © Laurel Ramseyer Vine maple litter had very few (but good) spiders           © Rod Crawford
Icicle Creek from Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington Icicle Creek from Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Campground borders Icicle "Creek"…          © Rod Crawford …which in November is wider than some "rivers"         © Laurel Ramseyer
Elk footprint beside Laurel Ramseyer's foot, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington campground scene, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Elk footprint with Laurel's foot for scale © Laurel Ramseyer Typical autumn campground scene         © Rod Crawford
ponderosa pine trees, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington inner bark of ponderosa pine, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Tall Ponderosa pines        © Laurel Ramseyer Jigsaw-like Ponderosa bark            © Laurel Ramseyer
closed Ponderosa pine cones, Mac Creek near Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington flat crab spider Bassaniana utahensis, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Pine cones not open for business         © Rod Crawford Flat Bassaniana from the flat habitat under bark scales      © Laurel Ramseyer
juvenile Gnaphosa spider under bark scale, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington juvenile Anyphaena under bark scales, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Juvenile Gnaphosa under bark scale    © Laurel Ramseyer Juvenile Anyphaena under bark scales        © Laurel Ramseyer
male pimoid spider Pimoa curvata beaten from shrubs, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington understory shrub habitat, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Unexpected Pimoa curvata…          © Laurel Ramseyer …from understory shrub habitat               © Laurel Ramseyer
cottonwood leaf litter, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington Rod Crawford sifting leaf litter, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Cottonwood leaf litter           © Rod Crawford Rod sifting cottonwood litter and finding zero spiders!      © Laurel Ramseyer
yellow leaves of red osier dogwood Cornus sericea, Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington snow on the high ridges seen from Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Red osier dogwood with non-red leaves © Laurel Ramseyer Snow on the slopes of Cashmere Mountain             © Laurel Ramseyer
Laurel Ramseyer on Mac Creek near Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington Mac Creek near Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington
Later, canyon cooled off, as Laurel demonstrates      © Rod Crawford Mac Creek crosses a decommissioned road in deep woods        © Rod Crawford
sides of Icicle Creek Canyon near dusk, near Johnny Creek Campground, Chelan County, Washington Icicle Quick Stop, Leavenworth, Washington
Sides of the canyon at dusk           © Rod Crawford In Leavenworth, we would have expected Der Qvick Schtop   © Laurel Ramseyer

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