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nisemikol

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I'm a woodland ghost and trail runner with a love for nature and sharing what I see in the wild. All photos I post are mine, captured with my phone.

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I wish I'd been closer—or that this capture had a high-enough resolution that I could zoom in further without noticeably reducing the quality of the image—but even though not ideal, I love what I caught 🐶💗

She looks so happy, and that front paw hovering over the trail is so flippin' cute! Adorable 😍

nisemikol, to pnw
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First time coming up on this bend in the trail on the Mima Falls Trail, and I was really taken with the scene 😍

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I bet you thought I was done posting shots of trillium. Ha! Never! MWAHAHAHA 😂

nisemikol, to pnw
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More trillium 😅

But, wait⁠—hear me out: You can also see the trail in this one! So it's different enough, right? Right?

Right 😆

nisemikol, to pnw
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Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina)—I believe—decorating the trail side at a stream crossing on the Mima Falls East Trail

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Trails #Bridges #Nature #Plants #Ferns #Photography #TrailRunning

nisemikol, to pnw
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I'm a sucker for trillium 🤷‍♂️

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #MimaFalls #Photography #Nature #Plants #Flowers #Wildflowers #Trillium #Ferns #TrailRunning

nisemikol, to pnw
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In my experience, these purple-pink phenotypes are much less common than white trillium in these parts (the forests of western Washington); I was very surprised, then, to find that almost half—by my very rough estimate—of all the trillium I saw on the Mima Falls Trail were this purple-pink color. When I got onto the McKenny Trail, the majority went clearly back to white. I wonder what it is about the Mima Falls Trail... 🤔

nisemikol, to pnw
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Got a campsite picked out for late spring / early summer, and it's a beauty 😉

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I love the way this tree's roots look as they stretch their way over the mossy rocks and down toward the creek. Gives me a real jungle-y feel, and I really dig that 😁💚

nisemikol, to pnw
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This little spot on Olney Creek was magical in the afternoon light. I was sorely tempted to splash about in the water, but our days are still not warm enough and the water was icy cold 🥶

nisemikol, to pnw
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I really love the texture of this old tree along the Sultan River Canyon Trail 🌲🤎

#PNW #USA #WA #SnohomishCounty #SultanRiverCanyonTrail #Nature #Hiking #Photography #Forest #Plants #Trees

nisemikol, to pnw
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There's so much to love about the little streams and falls that cross so many PNW trails—from the impressive roar of cascading water to the refreshing aromas stirred up in the churn—but I think my favorite thing is the noticeable dip in temperature as I approach the stream. It always feels like the air on the trail is at least a degree or two cooler at the water, and that's a welcome shift on a strenuous hike or trail run.

#PNW #USA #WA #SnohomishCounty #KSNF #SultanRiverCanyonTrail #Nature #Photography #Forest #Plants #Trees #Moss #Rocks #Water #Waterfall #Stream #Trail #Hike

nisemikol, to pnw
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Here's an alt view from the hike up to Heather Lake this past weekend. I really like how it ended up being almost monochromatic

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#PNW #USA #WA #SnohomishCounty #KSNF #Nature #Photography #Mountains #Trees #Snow #Hiking

nisemikol, to pnw
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The hike up to Heather Lake in the Kulshan-Snoqualmie National Forest was like traveling back in time, from spring back to winter ❄️

nisemikol, to pnw
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This isn't one of my best captures—limitations of smartphone photography—but I'm sharing because I'd like to know if anyone else has seen something like this. Note that almost every limb of the subject tree is wavy. None of the tree's neighbors, all the same type of tree, had wavy branches like that. Knowing what I know about how trees grow, I can only guess that the shape of this tree's branches had something to do with the quality of light it was receiving as those limbs grew: how much light, the pattern of light and shadows cast by neighbors, etc. Any science hippies here in the Federation have any further insight to impart?

nisemikol, to pnw
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Little brown mushrooms in a sea of moss

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That time of year for trillium, my favoritest native forest flower 🌷🤍

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I'm grateful I wasn't around when the windstorm brought down so many limbs in Waddell Basin, but I'm also glad I got to run thru before they were moved off the trail and out of sight. I love how some lichens look like terrestrial coral 🪸🧡

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Nature #Photography #Forest #Trees #Lichen #Trail #Running #TrailRunning

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Winter version of a photo I took in the Fall of '23 ❄️

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Nature #Forest #Snow #Trees #Trail #Running #TrailRunning

nisemikol, to pnw
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Always blown away by how many different kinds of fungus grow in this little corner of the world 🍄

nisemikol, to pnw
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I'll never get tired of the sight of mist moving through the forest, nor will I tire of the blues and yellows of sunlight diffused by clouds on the horizon 💛💙💛

nisemikol, to pnw
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I call this one the "The Elephant"—see it? 🐘🤍

nisemikol, to pnw
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Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na-Na…Batdog 🦇🐶😆

nisemikol, to pnw
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I love living in a place where this is just a regular scene on my runs 💚

Lilo loves the PNW, too 🐶🫶

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