Album of Upper Middle Fork Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford from my 2 June 2019 spider collecting trip (with Kiara Milcoff) to the upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington. We had to walk over 2 miles because the road was too rough for Kiara's car, so we were a bit limited in the habitats we could reach: riparian forest with conifers, or alders, or maples, and roadsides. But we managed to get 27 spider species, and had a good snack of just-ripened salmonberries! Nothing manmade nearby but the road — we were way out in the woods!
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2015 aerial view showing spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington Forest road we hiked on, to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Main collecting site in red             (King County, 2015)
 Road 5620, on which we hiked, and hiked, and…                © Rod Crawford
Kiara Milcoff at the start of our hike to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington gravel pit near where we parked on the way to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Kiara rests up for the long hike      © Rod Crawford Gravel pit near where we abandoned the car               © Rod Crawford
Microlinyphia dana sheet webs, spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington Neriene digna sheet web, spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Microlinyphia dana webs          © Rod Crawford Neriene digna web                   © Rod Crawford
rough forest road 5620 on way to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington rich, lush understory, spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Road getting too rough for the Prius   © Rod Crawford Rich, lush shrub-fern understory                    © Rod Crawford
salmonberry shrubs Rubus spectabilis, with berry barely visible, spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington very dense understory, spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Salmonberry: you can barely see fruit   © Rod Crawford Look how dense the understory habitat was!                © Rod Crawford
moss on trees, spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington moss on trees, spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Moss on trees                    © Rod Crawford Plenty of moss to sift!                          © Rod Crawford
SUV at campsite along road, seen hiking to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington marsh along forest road 5620, seen hiking to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Some people had more appropriate vehicles   © Rod Crawford We had to bypass this marsh to get to our area           © Rod Crawford
unnamed mountain on south side of river, seen hiking to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington cliff on south side of river, see hiking to spider collecting site on upper Middle Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Unnamed mountain south of river            © Rod Crawford Cliff across river from the road                   © Rod Crawford
sunset on way to Seattle from Snoqualmie, 2 June 2019 sunset from Mercer Island Floating Bridge, 2 June 2019
Sunset begins                 © Rod Crawford Sunset from floating bridge                        © Rod Crawford

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