Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 7 October 2025 spider collecting trip (with Kathy Whaley) to Monumental Mountain, SW of Colville, Stevens County, Washington. With a subalpine ridge fairly easy to reach by car, I thought this would be a fine place to pick up some different species, and had great hopes for that usually-splendid habitat of subalpine-forest dead wood. But the habitat disappointed me with only 2 species, and we only got 19 in all from the site. Still, it was an interesting place to spend the afternoon.

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Red dot is our site along ridge crest road      (Stevens County, 2023)	Patchwork of subalpine habitats                      © Rod Crawford
Red fall color                    © Rod Crawford	The rough side-track we parked on                      © Rod Crawford
Yellow vine maple where I got litter      © Rod Crawford	Diverse shrubs and trees                        © Rod Crawford
Vine maple litter                 © Laurel Ramseyer	Herbs with white seed puffs                           © Rod Crawford
Rocks were good habitat               © Laurel Ramseyer	Female Phidippus johnsonii found under rock               © Laurel Ramseyer
Spirembolus mundus from Douglas-fir cone © Rod Crawford	Castianeira sp. from under rock                         © Rod Crawford
Dead wood habitat                   © Rod Crawford	Shrub community                               © Rod Crawford
Silver fir foliage                 © Rod Crawford	I hiked up the ridge road in search of cottonwood litter       © Rod Crawford
Another bright yellow vine maple         © Rod Crawford	Huckleberry shrubs turn red                 © Rod Crawford
View to the east                     © Rod Crawford	View to the west                                © Laurel Ramseyer
Juvenile Callobius sp.              © Laurel Ramseyer	Sunset from halfway down the mountain                     © Rod Crawford

This page last updated 22 November, 2025