Saturday, July 27, 2013

Nooksack River Hike


We just returned to the cabin from a four mile river hike along the Nooksack River called the Horseshoe Bend Trail.  Star says it’s her new favorite river hike, which is a strong statement considering we have hiked the Chattooga, Snake, Elwha, Yellowstone, Saluda, and Teton amongst many others.  The foliage is green like home, but that’s where the similarities end.  Huge ferns,  moss hanging from trees six feet and more in diameter, berries, tiny flowers, and hard woods with leaves bigger than my head crowd the trail.  (That slightly overblown sentence is courtesy of Star.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 


 




 
The river forms at the Nooksack Glacier 20 or so miles above where we were hiking, and has a hypnotizing blue-green tint.
 



 



A tree grows out of the stump of a former Douglas
Fir tree.










 






I'll buy a beer for the first person to tell me what this is growing from this tree.  A fungus? 

 





 
 

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