Swamp Trail, Section Line Trail, Nook Trail & Tradition Lake Loop — Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024

All of the snow has melted on the trails below 1100'. There were a few muddy spots, but nothing too bad. I found my first red huckleberry flowers (photo 3), sitka willow buds (photo 2), and cherry plum flowers (photo 1). Colt's foot (photo 4) is now blooming on the Section Line trail). There are some thick areas of oso-berry blooms. Lots of nettles are coming up and I saw the first Pacific waterleaf shoots.

2024 spring milestones on Tiger Mt:

2-27 red huckleberry in bloom (multiple trails)

2-27 Pacific waterleaf shoots (Park Pointe)

2-27 sitka willow flower buds (gas line clearing, end of Big Tree trail)

2-25 cherry plums blooming (multiple trails on Tradition plateau)

2-24 first moths (small, tan-orange, same species that came out first last year)

2-24 colt's foot in bloom, poo poo point trail 

2-22 salmonberry flowers (Swamp trail)  

2-22 tall Oregon grape flowers open (Power Line above Sunset Way) 

2-17 stinging nettle shoots

2-14 colt's foot flower buds (Poo Poo Point trail)

2-13 colt's foot (Petasites frigidus) shoots appear (section line, they must have been many days earlier on the Poo Poo point trail)

2-13 red elderberry leaves (Sambucas racemosa)

2-8 tall Oregon grape flower buds (Mahonia aquifolium)

2-2 oso-berry flower (Oemleria cerasiformis)

2-1 male Pacific Wrens singing for mates and territory