Album of Haywire Ridge Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford from a 24 April 2013 spider collecting trip to timberland on the south slope of Haywire Ridge, NE of Sultan, Snohomish County, Washington. It was a long, 3-mile hike from the bus route to unsampled territory, but the site I found was an amazingly peaceful place to spend the day. Some major habitats were absent (no meadow and hardly any reachable canopy), so the catch was only 25 species, but that will do.
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2009 aerial view of Haywire Ridge spider collecting site, Snohomish County, Washington Sultan Basin Road on route to Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Square of timberland in the rural-residential  (Snohomish County 2009) I walked up Sultan Basin Road to the distant hill        © Rod Crawford
fern fiddlehead in forest, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington trail/road into timberland, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington timberland, Dermaptera: Coleoptera: Hemiptera, Homoptera Dermaptera: Coleoptera: Carabidae, larvae Bembidion incertum group Pteroloma Bembidion planatum(♀only) Mt.St. Helens Site "PA" Mt.St. Helens Site "PA" Mt.St. Helens Site "PA" Mt.St. Helens Site "PA" Mt.St. Helens Site "PA" SW corner Spirit Lk. 3520' SW corner Spirit Lk. 3520' SW corner Spirit Lk. 3520' SW corner Spirit Lk. 3520' SW corner Spirit Lk. 3520' pitfalls 1-5 medium surface pitfalls 1-5 medium surface pitfalls 1-5 coarse surface pitfalls 1-5 coarse surface pitfalls 1-5 medium surface 46.255°N 122.169°W 46.255°N 122.169°W 46.255°N 122.169°W 46.255°N 122.169°W 46.255°N 122.169°W WASH.: Skamania Co. WASH.: Skamania Co. WASH.: Skamania Co. WASH.: Skamania Co. WASH.: Skamania Co. 24 VIII-7 IX 1985 Rick Sugg 7-20 IX 1985 Rick Sugg 7-20 IX 1985 Rick Sugg 7-20 IX 1985 Rick Sugg 7-20 IX 1985 Rick Sugg
Fern fiddleheads               © Rod Crawford Overgrown logging road, my highway into the woods          © Rod Crawford
stones in old roadbed, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington seral hemlock forest, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Stones in old roadbed     © Rod Crawford Seral hemlock forest         © Rod Crawford
leaf litter (mostly maple), Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington moss on tree trunk, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Leaf litter, ready to sift       © Rod Crawford Moss on tree trunk, ready to sift               © Rod Crawford
Ozyptila pacifica male from leaf litter, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington western hemlock foliage, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Ozyptila pacifica from litter      © Rod Crawford This was the only good hemlock foliage I could reach            © Rod Crawford
moss on tree, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington verdant part of old roadbed, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Mossy trees like this made me stop here   © Rod Crawford Verdant part of the old road-bed            © Rod Crawford
carapace of juvenile mimetid spider Ero canionis, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington female mimetid, Ero canionis, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Carapace of juvenile Ero        © Rod Crawford Adult female Ero canionis from the side          © Rod Crawford
grassy roadbed, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington mossy logs in forest, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Grassy road-bed, but no grass fauna    © Rod Crawford Mossy logs in forest         © Rod Crawford
ferns Polystichum munitum in forest understory, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington Dicentra-dominated forest understory, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Ferny forest floor          © Rod Crawford Dicentra-dominated understory              © Rod Crawford
shelf fungus on old stump, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington very old cedar stump, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Shelf fungus on old stump          © Rod Crawford Resilient cedar stumps, who knows how old?              © Rod Crawford
salmonberry flower Rubus spectabilis, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington seral forest canopy, Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Salmonberry flower          © Rod Crawford Forest canopy in broadleaf stand               © Rod Crawford
Baring Mountain from Sultan Basin Road on way to Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington rural scene by Sultan Basin Road on way to Haywire Ridge, Snohomish County, Washington
Baring Mountain: what a view!         © Rod Crawford Picturesque rural scene on my way back              © Rod Crawford

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