Album of Sunday Lake Trail Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 24 September 2021 spider collecting trip to the Sunday Lake Trail (upper North Fork Snoqualmie River), King County, Washington. Our original idea was to climb up Little Kid Mountain but we couldn't; trail/road utterly vanished! Fortunately it was now fall, so the low elevation site at the base of the cliffs got us as many spiders as we needed, and other habitats farther to the east (between the river and Lennox Creek) just a few more for a fine sample of 45 species!
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Sunday Lake Trail area, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington, 2019 aerial photo Little Kid Mountain from Sunday Lake Trailhead, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Our collecting area and its features    (King County, 2019) Our goal, Little Kid Mountain, in plain sight                       © Rod Crawford
Campbell Timber sign at Sunday Lake Trailhead, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington true trailhead of Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Our instructions said to ignore forbidding Campbell Co. sign on gate            © Rod Crawford True trailhead a little farther along                      © Rod Crawford
Sunday Creek Bog, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington log crossing bog on Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Sunday Creek Bog               © Laurel Ramseyer Another precarious log crossing                 © Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford sifting alder litter, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington penultimate female harvestman Taracus pallipes, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Rod sifting alder litter on the hard ground      © Laurel Ramseyer Harvestman from litter, penultimate Taracus pallipes          © Rod Crawford
cliff above our collecting site, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington forest along Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Alders screen cliff above us        © Laurel Ramseyer The woods are lovely, dark and deep                 © Laurel Ramseyer
sword fern Pterostichum munitum on Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington hillside covered wirh sword fern, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Fern understory was spider-rich       © Rod Crawford More ferns than we could shake a net at              © Laurel Ramseyer
moss on alder trunk, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington Laurel Ramseyer sifting moss, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Moss on alder trunk                © Rod Crawford Laurel sifting moss                     © Rod Crawford
European cross orbweaver Araneus diadematus, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington European cross orbweaver Araneus diadematus, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Araneus diadematus…            © Laurel Ramseyer …invasive European species well-established here            © Laurel Ramseyer
female Metellina segmentata, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington male Metellina segmentata, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Metellina segmentata female…         © Laurel Ramseyer …and male, another European invasive             © Laurel Ramseyer
microspider Walckenaeria cornuella with malformed palps, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington native orbweaver Araneus nordmanni, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Walckenaeria cornuella with malformed palps        © Rod Crawford Native Araneus nordmanni still holding on         © Laurel Ramseyer
maple leaf litter, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington maple trees at top of rock, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Maple litter, not as rich as it looked        © Rod Crawford Litter fell from these trees atop the rock                © Rod Crawford
ferny rock on sun, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington ferny rock in shade, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Ferny rock in sunlight           © Rod Crawford Same ferny rock in shade                 © Rod Crawford
frog beside Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington herb-shrub understory beside Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
We met several frogs in the woods   © Laurel Ramseyer Non-fern understory                  © Rod Crawford
topo map of Little Kid Mountain, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington site of former road up Little Kid Mountain, Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington
Topo map led us to expect an old road climbing Little Kid     (USGS) Erstwhile road ain't there any more!                     © Rod Crawford
bridge railings, uppermost bridge over North Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington uppermost bridge over North Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Laurel loves to collect from bridge rails   © Laurel Ramseyer Bridge over the North Fork Snoqualmie                 © Laurel Ramseyer
Native Araneus species, probably gemma, uppermost bridge over North Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington Lennox Creek from bridge near uppermost bridge over North Fork Snoqualmie River, King County, Washington
Unusual Araneus, to be identified        © Laurel Ramseyer Lennox Creek, major high tributary of the river        © Laurel Ramseyer
bullet damage on bridge approach, uppermost bridge over Lennox Creek, King County, Washington Little Kid Mountain from near Sunday Lake Trailhead, King County, Washington
Bang! Bang!              © Laurel Ramseyer Farewell Little Kid, sorry we couldn't climb you                © Rod Crawford
fall-colored vine maple on Sunday Lake Trail, North Fork Snoqualmie, King County, Washington sunset from Mercer Island Floating Bridge, near Seattle, 24 September 2021
Fall color begins in the forest          © Rod Crawford And evening color begins in the sunset              © Rod Crawford

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