A few off-leash dogs, as usual, on Poo Poo Point trail / High School trail. After the junction with One View trail, I didn't see another person until Middle Tiger trail. The TMT closure sign is gone at the junction with TMT-Fifteen Mile, though there was an older Danger: Logging sign that someone left up along the TMT, just after the intersection with Hobart Grade.
TMT is quite overgrown in areas, a little challenging.
The clearcut along the TMT, before the Middle Tiger Trail, is brutal: sunny, exposed, dusty. Wild, but you can see South Tiger from the TMT now that it's all stumps. A work crew was repairing the TMT, thanks folks!
"East Tiger Connector" (which doesn't connect there anymore) between the road over Soderman Creek and Bootleg Trail was incredibly overgrown - no trail closure sign, but I really wouldn't recommend it - easier to go around the old Paw Print Connector way (Fifteenmile Creek / Bootleg).
Lots of ripe berries, still: huckleberry, salmonberry, a few thimbleberries. Flowers are dying back and bit, with some old vanilla leaf and bleeding heart, but foamflower and foxglove still looks fresh. There's a spot along TMT near W Tiger that has ghost pipe and coralroot, and between WT1-Middle Tiger there's some bog wintergreen along it too.
The whole way was runnable except for portions of TMT and that "East Tiger Connector"
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