This Beautiful Place: Deception Falls Pt 2

Here is the second photo dump from the Deception Falls hike! I allllmost didn't cross this bridge! It was very difficult to take pictures on it so I mostly shot blindly while death gripping the railing up to my elbow. Both the falls and the hike were incredibly beautiful. One thing I loved and couldn't get over were the skunk cabbages!! Skunk cabbage, lysichiton americanus, is known for having the largest leaves - two feet wide and four feet tall! Cresting a incline to see a miniature valley of these abnormally large, vivid green plants just feel magically prehistoric!

 

Cute ferns!

All rolled up!

 

Skunk cabbage plus foot for reference 

 

Some beautiful coloring and forest patterns!

Looking at the path ahead

I made a blurry gif! River from the bridge!

This Beautiful Place: Deception Falls Pt 1

I recently had the pleasure of attending a camping birthday up North a bit, in the Stephens Pass area. It was short and sweet but I still managed to take an excessive amount of photos so I've broken the photo dump into two posts. This first one has some photos from around the campground and of the hike we took along a gushing river, which brought us to a really cool log bridge (see bridge in my next post!).

Campground bubbles glittering in the sun

Have you ever seen Fern Gully?

The lone sunlit tree, must be special!

Verbena and friend

Neat little root cave

The view downstream...

The view upstream

Campground poi art