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

#WaterfallWednesday
From March 2024.

Upper Goldstream Falls.

#WaterfallWednesday

Upper Goldstream Falls in Summer.
I like it more in Winter & early Spring - when almost no one else is there.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

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.

Upper Goldstream River in Summer.

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

Easiest parts of the hiking trail.

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.

These huge #cedar #trees are second growth. Old growth cedars are even larger. These two photos show how small we are, in comparison to the trees. While this park has some old growth to see - most of it is actually filled with 2nd & 3rd growth trees.

I usually take at least one photo of a friend's backside, walking along hiking trails - on my nature hiking adventures

Mossface Monday
Saw this #TreesKnees in the forest & it looked like it had a face. So I put my #sunglasses on it. Then put my friend's ballcap on it.