Album of Baker River Trail Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 13 August 2022 spider collecting trip to the Baker River Trail (upper end of Baker Lake), Whatcom County, Washington. We collected mainly around the suspension bridge that connects our trail with the end of the Baker Lake Trail, offering a nice variety of forest habitats with the shaded streamside rocks and the large slabs of fallen bark most interesting. The vast expanse of dry gravel bar by the trailhead parking lot added a few more, for 32 in all.
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aerial view of first part of Baker River Trail, Whatcom County, Washington trailhead sign, Baker River Trail, Whatcom County, Washington
Our sites in red on aerial view      (Whatcom County) Trailhead sign                          © Rod Crawford
Baker River Trail, Whatcom County, Washington sky on 13 August 2022, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Well-maintained trail               © Rod Crawford Partly cloudy                         © Rod Crawford
diverse understory by bridge, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington Clear water and blue water in river, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Diverse understory by bridge                © Rod Crawford Clear water, blue water                     © Rod Crawford
The bridge, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington downstream from bridge, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
The suspension bridge             © Rod Crawford Baker River downstream from bridge                  © Rod Crawford
Theridion varians spider with egg sac on railing, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington Baker River above bridge, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Theridion varians and eggs on bridge   © Laurel Ramseyer Baker River upstream from bridge               © Rod Crawford
tussock moth caterpillar, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington lovers' carving on railing, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Tussock caterpillar              © Laurel Ramseyer I wonder if they're still together                © Laurel Ramseyer
USGS stream monitor apparatus, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington western hemlock foliage, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Stream monitor made fine sifting platform © Rod Crawford Western hemlock foliage                       © Rod Crawford
big hemlock tree, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington fallen bark slabs, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Big "honker" of a hemlock tree             © Rod Crawford Fallen bark slabs had good spiders               © Rod Crawford
rocks near river, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington male Cybaeus eutypus spider under rock, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Rocks, some with spiders underneath     © Rod Crawford Male Cybaeus eutypus under a rock             © Laurel Ramseyer
female Cybaeus reticulatus under rock, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington forest understory, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Cybaeus reticulatus under a rock      © Laurel Ramseyer Dense and diverse forest understory                 © Laurel Ramseyer
red huckleberries Vaccinium parvifolium, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington red huckleberries, Vaccinium parvifolium, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Delicious huckle…            © Rod Crawford …berries were common                © Rod Crawford
moss on tree trunk, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington moss on boulder, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Moss on tree trunk              © Rod Crawford Moss on big boulder                         © Rod Crawford
retreat on fern of penultimate male Callobius, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington green water in Baker River, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Penultimate male Callobius made this unusual retreat on a fern
© Laurel Ramseyer		 Another color-shade of Baker River water                © Laurel Ramseyer
Philodromus spectabilis female from bridge railing, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington second bridge over side channel, Baker River Trail at suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington
Philodromus spectabilis from railing     © Laurel Ramseyer Different design of bridge over a side channel              © Laurel Ramseyer
Rod Crawford sorting tree beat sample, gravel bar by Baker River trailhead, Whatcom County, Washington vast expanse of gravel, gravel bar by Baker River trailhead, Whatcom County, Washington
Rod sorting a tree beat back near trailhead      © Laurel Ramseyer Vast expanse of dry gravel bar               © Laurel Ramseyer
young Douglas-fir, gravel bar by Baker River trailhead, Whatcom County, Washington reflecting pool, gravel bar by Baker River trailhead, Whatcom County, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage on gravel bar        © Rod Crawford Reflecting pool in shade of forest edge                © Rod Crawford
young Douglas-fir with sun-singed needles sun-singed needles fallen into beating net, gravel bar by Baker River trailhead, Whatcom County, Washington
Young tree with sun-singed needles          © Rod Crawford Sun-singed needles clogging Rod's beating net              © Rod Crawford
campers by trailhead, gravel bar by Baker River trailhead, Whatcom County, Washington campers by trailhead, gravel bar by Baker River trailhead, Whatcom County, Washington
Around trailhead, campers…              © Rod Crawford …were everywhere. Everywhere, I tell ya!        © Rod Crawford
unknown male Ceratinella microspider from fallen bark, Baker River Trail by suspension bridge, Whatcom County, Washington sunset on Cook Road west of Sedro Woolley, Washington on 13 August 2022
Unknown male Ceratinella from fallen bark slabs      © Rod Crawford Sunset from the freeway                 © Rod Crawford

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