From a year ago.
This is one of my fave local #hiking trails - Upper Goldstream Falls in #GoldstreamPark.
Upper #Goldstream Falls.
Flip phone sideways for full #panoramic view.
The quieter, less busy area of #GoldstreamPark. It's great to hike there in late Fall & Winter, when the campground is gated off. You see almost no one else on the trails in off season.
From March 2024.
Enjoy some lush, mossy, coastal temperate #rainforest & soothing river vibes. Especially if you live in concrete jungles 
#WaterfallWednesday
From March 2024.
Upper Goldstream Falls.
Put your #SoundOn 
Upper Goldstream Falls in Summer.
I like it more in Winter & early Spring - when almost no one else is there.
Beautiful 2nd growth cedar tree. Branches are covered in moss & lichens.
Another muddy part of hiking trail. There's another muddy section past the petrified cedar tree roots & then it goes uphill into drier parts.
Please enjoy & excuse my not smiling face.
I wanted to show folks that nature never wastes anything. I wanted to show how this dead tree is feeding new life growths & how many animals benefit from us letting nature do its thing.
Happy about finding a few big pieces of wonderful lichen forest medicines 
I saw this huge Douglas fir tree trunk on our way back to parking spot.
When I first saw it - shouted out - LOOK AT THAT! They are WOOD SHORTS!
Then, my friend took a pic of me with the big wood shorts.
Last section of a long series of stairs that lead down from the hiking trail to the river & Upper Goldstream waterfalls.
They should install safety railings on at least one side of those stairs w/none.
This looks like a woodlands swing to me. Curved cedar branch, covered in mosses & dripping with lichens 
We must be quiet enough in the forest to hear nature speak to us in volumes
Big ferns & skunk cabbage foliage 
Our hands are in photos for scale. Plus, we like to touch trees & plants in the forest (except for toxic to touch ones).
Nadene, standing on old growth big leaf maple tree stump. I loved the gooseneck thick branch that extends out. There's huckleberry, cedar, big leaf maple & Douglas fir babies growing out of the stump.
I usually take at least one photo of a friend's backside, walking along hiking trails - on my nature hiking adventures 
