There are only a few small branches down, with only 1 of those requiring a step-over and duck, on the High School-One View-TMT-Hidden Forest-Poo Top- T1 to T3-WT3-Talus Rock-Section Line loop. One View has many muddy spots and Section Line has a few. The DNR did a great job on the High School trail to Poo Poo, it drains beautifully. The TMT and Hidden Forest trails are fairly overgrown, my pants and boots got soaked in this .2 mile.
Wild ginger is blooming on the top half of Poo Top (photo 2). Devil's club is blooming (photo 3). The first Columbia windflower is out on Talus Rocks (photos 1 and 4, more will be blooming soon at this spot, between the waterfall and the glacial erratics on the south side of the trail). Other flowers I saw for the first time this year: night enchanters, starry false Solomon’s seal, Himalayan blackberry, foxglove, ox-eye daisies (a few near the summits, 100,000 to come), goatsbeard, and I must have missed some.
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