PNW inland temperate rainforest

[Jd110]

I’ve read there might be an inland temperate rainforest in Siberia, but this is the only one, I know, of in the world. It’s 600 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
Before the weather got cold I took a walk through the longest drainage in this mtn range, that has had no roads or logging since settlement.


Headed for that saddle and figured I’d scramble up the peak.


This is the drainage. I’ll post pictures from inside the canyon later.



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[coolpool]

Beauty country jd, thanks for sharing! Are you doing some elk or sheep hunting, and how's the grizzly situation in that area? I take it that you're backpacking and staying out by the looks of the distances.

[Jd110]

Beauty country jd, thanks for sharing! Are you doing some elk or sheep hunting, and how's the grizzly situation in that area? I take it that you're backpacking and staying out by the looks of the distances.

You bet! I was just out to see this area in the fall when the stream crossing are easier and less people. Only saw two really skittish deer in what was probably 25 miles. Was sorta surprised about that, but hey...it was a great 30 hrs spent.

[ATC King]

Uhm...yeah, sure.

This is what I'm envisioning when looking at those pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ktRhBcHza4

Bad kitty, scat, go away, I'm big and scary...and just my pants. Long hike with adrenaline and shitty pants for that guy. A raw crack and the shakes for the rest of the day.

[Jd110]

Notice how the trees and forest in general changes in a short distance. This is close to the creek.

It’s absolute rage in the spring. Not recommended




These deer are keen. This is as close as I got. Straight ahead on the trail.


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[Jd110]

Uhm...yeah, sure.

This is what I'm envisioning when looking at those pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ktRhBcHza4

Bad kitty, scat, go away, I'm big and scary...and just my pants. Long hike with adrenaline and shitty pants for that guy. A raw crack and the shakes for the rest of the day.

Um yeah right. I stopped watching it when he said ‘I’m big and scary’-backing up with all those big rocks at his feet?
So anyway, you are certainly welcome to check it out for yourself. A lot of this area is protected so it can wait.

[DAM shop]

Beautiful pics jd, I always thought there were 7 inland rainforest thru out the world. Not sure where and maybe they are not. The same type.

[Jd110]

It’s inland. The rest are coastal.
Furthermore, these mountains are older than all the other northern Rocky Mountains. They stood alone at what is estimated to be around 20,000 ft., when this was the coast(before Washington, Oregon and California emerged).
This is where you’ll find plant life that is found nowhere else, but a coastal temperate rainforest. With the prevailing winds that bring in lots of moisture from the Pacific Ocean and the massive Rocky Mountain in the back, it is a inland temperate rainforest.






Back down near the valley.

Now, to find my ride back to the truck. You see it?

If you’ve ever gone out alone in a wild remote place, you know that your senses are at the highest. The smell of this is amazing, but the sounds and sights can make my hair stand up!

[ATC King]

The most vicious beasts in the forest are often the quietest.

It's when all the other animals stop making noise that I get to really listening.

Stupid squirrels...

[ironchop]

Fantastic pics! ...Beautiful place.

I could really use a solo hike up in there for about 72hrs to clear all of 2020 out of my head and reset.

Thanks for sharing

[Jd110]

I was up a favorite spot of mine again last August. Want to go to the top? I’ll show you what I found. Let’s go! sry for the scary mug shot.
We’ll go up that little snow line you can barely see up the ravine.



There use to be a fire lookout tower on top, but it blew down about 20 years ago.


This is the reminder of that tower. I didn’t take a picture of it when I found it but this is what I found:

It’s a piece of #2 bare solid copper that was used for lighting suppression on all towers. I wasn’t sure at the time I found it but hoped it was copper. So I made my first bracelet.
Can’t wait to go back!

[ATC King]

It'd do more people good if they got out and experienced nature. Real nature, not the tourist trap junk.

Of course, a lot of people don't belong in nature, don't have any skills to handle it, and will use their SPOT or sat phone to call in a bottle of water, but not a rescue. That's not a joke, it has happened.

Me, I'll have a difficult time making distance, because I'd be picking up and looking at rocks. I'd learn all I could about the geology before going too. There would be an eye loupe hanging around my neck, and I'd be using it.

[Jd110]

It'd do more people good if they got out and experienced nature. Real nature, not the tourist trap junk.

Of course, a lot of people don't belong in nature, don't have any skills to handle it, and will use their SPOT or sat phone to call in a bottle of water, but not a rescue. That's not a joke, it has happened.

Me, I'll have a difficult time making distance, because I'd be picking up and looking at rocks. I'd learn all I could about the geology before going too. There would be an eye loupe hanging around my neck, and I'd be using it.

I would never take anyone. Especially, someone with an eye loupe! Lol


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[Jd110]

I was kidding about the loupe. Everyone that knows me knows I have a hard time stopping when I get going. My dad and I use to do it with a group but that was years ago.
This mtn with the blown down tower was one of our first climbs together back when I was a youngster. The tower was erected by the forest service in the 50’s and blew down in ‘99. It was a fire lookout camp around 1917. A cabin was built in the 20’s and they built the first tower around the 30’s.
It is 7200’, that’s 5000’ above the valley. There is a nice 17 mile road that stops at the 1st lake at about 6000’. From there it is steep mile to the upper lake so probably 2mile to the top. One of the easiest spots to access the back country here. Everything else is a lot longer hike.
I went there last weekend to look around, again and boy was I surprised. I took the trike because I knew there’d be snow. I still have my bald tires but it took me as far as 4x4 machines went. I was the first up there but when I got back I could tell my machine got a ton of attention because there were foot prints all around it. So glad I had a key that day but I ended up loosing it and had to disconnect it with my tools I leave stored on the machine lol. You guys ever lose things?
Found some cool things if you care to see:





As I was traversing this slope I spotted this hole and carefully backed up.


Almost to the ridge.


The hole I almost walked into looks tiny up here.

This is the top facing the tower under the snow

Oh, what this?

Looks like a piece of junk copper tubing. If you haven’t seen what this can become I will try to make a cool bracelet out of it and show you sometime. This aged copper looks the best when it’s ed out.

What is this green strip in the ground?

This was my surprise of the day. I’m going to glue it back together. Says 1939 china. I’m pretty sure it’s been under this rock since the 70’s when the tower was abandoned. Yes, I found the workers dump site.

I filmed this on its last few tumbles.


4x4 turned around up there just past the sun. Too soft.

This is what I had to take off.

A nice guy on a side by side came up to see if I needed a beer.
Hey now, no key and it’s running. Yea! Cya

[ATC King]

Man, I'm already dying here from the heat and humidity. It's a two-three shirt day already, and a extra pair of undies depending on how much I'm moving around. Clothes are soaked with sweat and rubbing around within half an hour, and we've got until the end October before the days are comfortable again.

That is where I'd like to be living right now.

That bowl would have 'Made in China' on it now, nice score. The government has a lot of things like that made outside the US anymore, but they pay US made prices. Many of the uniforms are made in Mexico, and they're garbage, already have stitching coming loose out of the box. BTW, no sane person is really going to care you took that, but there are some that have nothing better to do than cause people problems. If that's public land, it's federal, and illegal to take ANYTHING from it, even so much as a flower. You may want to keep those pictures to yourself in the future.

That box is sweet. Bet it'll hold a lot of samiches.