Muller Ridge Trail from Kloshe Nanitch Lookout
The Muller Ridge Trail was in fog this day. Lots of photos of fungus in the forest and flowers in the foggy ridgeline meadows.

Camp tarp without hiking pole support; Fairholm Campground

Rinde de'Range served on a bed of moss; Fairholm Campground

Fanny floating in a foray of fungal finery; Fairholm Campground

Tiny yellow mushroom bloom in a log end; Fairholm Campground

Verde rolling a log to find elements for a new opera; Fairholm Campground

On the one hand...; Fairholm Campground

Forest in fog; near the start of the Muller Ridge Trail

Gate closing the road to the cell towers; approaching the Muller Ridge Trail

Sign at the western beginning of the "official" Muller Ridge Trail

Wonky Woodpecker; Muller Ridge Trail

Wonky Woodpecker (full view): After the crash!; Muller Ridge Trail

Li Che was determined to halt the advancing Moss settlement; Muller Ridge Trail

Paintbrush blooming on ridge top, south-slope meadows; Muller Ridge Trail

Fog-shrouded meadow; Muller Ridge Trail


Mike stretching in a south sloping meadow; Muller Ridge Trail


This is a little-used route; Muller Ridge Trail

Paintbrush enlivening a clear-day vista site; Muller Ridge Trail

Flamboyant wood and a fog-enshouded vista; Muller Ridge Trail

Mike in a meadow points out the vista toward the lofty heights of the Olympic Mountains; Muller Ridge Trail

Subtle colours in a lush and wet forest; Muller Ridge Trail

Lichen on a limb; Muller Ridge Trail

Mountain meadow fronts an obscured Muller Ridge; Muller Ridge Trail

Water droplets on a stalk of flowers; Muller Ridge Trail

Glimpse of Lake Crescent on our descent; Muller Ridge Trail

Closer to Muller Ridge clouds cling; Muller Ridge Trail

Flowering log; Muller Ridge Trail

Paintbrush flower detail; Muller Ridge Trail

Veined flower close up; Muller Ridge Trail

Kernel corn fungus - view 1; Muller Ridge Trail

Kernel corn fungus - second view; Muller Ridge Trail

Mike marching through a high meadow of blooming red paintbrush; Muller Ridge Trail

Lake Crescent appears briefly from a Muller Ridge meadow

Log with button-like Jelly fungus: Muller Ridge Trail

Button-like Jelly fungus; Muller Ridge Trail

Spamork El-trunk; Muller Ridge Trail

Smiley McHart; wood fungus along the Muller Ridge Trail

Sobbing Lydia; Muller Ridge Trail

Crab-like Lichen; Muller Ridge Trail

Floyd rarely left his shell and was seldom pleased about it; Muller Ridge Trail

Intricate Lichen with mustard-coloured mushrooms; Muller Ridge Trail

"Witches' Butter" Jelly fungus; Muller Ridge Trail

"Witches' Butter" Jelly fungus - 2; Muller Ridge Trail

Alas, back near the lookout, the sun returned for our drive home; Muller Ridge Trail