I had the pleasure of walking one of my favorite trails today with Laura and Ann, USFS botanists from the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest and Dawn and Bridgette, two trails specialists from the Darrington district. Together we scouted out the types and locations of two species of sensitive plants and studied ways to perform routine trail maintenance without harming them or their habitat. I'll be leading a work party on Lake 22 on Oct. 5. If you like this trail as much as I do now is your chance to work with us on it. It hasn't received much maintenance this year so there's plenty of plugged culverts, silted in drainage ditches and blown-out waterbars to work on.