Beautiful day to explore the woods and do some more recording in some areas I hadn't been to yet. I loved seeing the sunlight through the glistening leaves. 

Took some of the trails from the parking lot and ended up on the Big Tree trail, hung out with the big Douglas fir for a bit, then went towards the Puget Power trail and back on the Adventure trail.

Thank you to the WTA volunteers for maintaining these trails!

My hiking group started from the Senator Bill Ramos Memorial Th (East Sunset Way) at 9:15 today. Only 3 cars were in the lot when we drove up. There are no toilet facilities here so plan to green door.  It was 53 degrees with light rain falling when we headed up the trail. Our route followed the Tradition Plateau, Wetlands, Adventure, High School, Section Line, Talus Rocks, West Tiger 3 and Bus trails back to the Wetlands for a 6.1 miles out and back lollipop loop hike.  All the trails are saturated, well drained soil, some covered with big maple leaves.  The only dicey spot was descending down to the creek after visiting the Talus Rocks on the Talus Rocks Trail.  The roots and rocks were super slippery and we took our time facing the trail and navigating giant step downs.  Several downed branches lay across the trail were the waterfall stream comes down.  I choose to step on the rocks and gravel that were present. We had to step over 3 downed trees on our route the largest was just before Round Lake. Trail traffic was super light, most likely, due to the rainy weather forecast. We passed less than 10 trail users the entire time we were out.  The hillside is still holding onto brilliant yellow color from the deciduous trees.  We spotted a few mushrooms but not as many as I was expecting.  The skies parted briefly when we walked up to Round Lake. This was the least amount of water I have seen here.  It looked like a giant puddle with grass and cattails poking out.  We stopped at the Tradition Plateau gate way Trillium arch on our way back to the trailhead.  Rain started falling in earnest when we drove out at 1:30.  Another fantastic day out in nature with friends.

A few off-leash dogs, as usual, on Poo Poo Point trail / High School trail. After the junction with One View trail, I didn't see another person until Middle Tiger trail. The TMT closure sign is gone at the junction with TMT-Fifteen Mile, though there was an older Danger: Logging sign that someone left up along the TMT, just after the intersection with Hobart Grade.

TMT is quite overgrown in areas, a little challenging.

The clearcut along the TMT, before the Middle Tiger Trail, is brutal: sunny, exposed, dusty. Wild, but you can see South Tiger from the TMT now that it's all stumps. A work crew was repairing the TMT, thanks folks!

"East Tiger Connector" (which doesn't connect there anymore) between the road over Soderman Creek and Bootleg Trail was incredibly overgrown - no trail closure sign, but I really wouldn't recommend it - easier to go around the old Paw Print Connector way (Fifteenmile Creek / Bootleg).

Lots of ripe berries, still: huckleberry, salmonberry, a few thimbleberries. Flowers are dying back and bit, with some old vanilla leaf and bleeding heart, but foamflower and foxglove still looks fresh. There's a spot along TMT near W Tiger that has ghost pipe and coralroot, and between WT1-Middle Tiger there's some bog wintergreen along it too.

The whole way was runnable except for portions of TMT and that "East Tiger Connector"

Clear and well kept.