There is one easy, step-over blowdown on the Poo Poo Point trail. There is a group of blowdowns on the One View trail, it takes a little work to get over 2 of them. It will probably take a chainsaw to clear these. Thanks to whoever sawed off some of the branches! There were a few patches of snow on the Poo Top trail; these were easy without traction going uphill, but might be a challenge going down. The connector trail to the hiker's hut was mostly snow covered, but on this warm day, it was easy with hiking boots or trail runners. There are short patches of snow traversing from Tiger 1 to Tiger 3, all of them easy without traction and melting quickly. :-) Everywhere above 1000 feet there is some mud in low spots, but nothing too bad.
I saw the first evergreen violets blooming at the intersection of the TMT and the Hidden Forest trails.
These observations and the photos are from a nature ramble on the Puget Power Line trail. The willow on the Puget power trail went into bloom (photo 1 with a hover fly, I'm working on the willow species). I saw my first butterfly (from too far to see the species) and my first pollinating moth (photo 2, Xanthorhoini family, Xanthorhoini is a tribe of geometer moths under subfamily Larentiinae). I used the iNaturalist app to get this information and I've added observations on iNaturalist with the hope of finding out more. I saw my first Thalecress in full bloom on the gas line trail (photo 4).
2024 events on Tiger Mt
I saw the first evergreen violets blooming at the intersection of the TMT and the Hidden Forest trails.
These observations and the photos are from a nature ramble on the Puget Power Line trail. The willow on the Puget power trail went into bloom (photo 1 with a hover fly, I'm working on the willow species). I saw my first butterfly (from too far to see the species) and my first pollinating moth (photo 2, Xanthorhoini family, Xanthorhoini is a tribe of geometer moths under subfamily Larentiinae). I used the iNaturalist app to get this information and I've added observations on iNaturalist with the hope of finding out more. I saw my first Thalecress in full bloom on the gas line trail (photo 4).
2024 events on Tiger Mt
at the bottom of this are all of the species in bloom, each with a link to their Burke Herbarium web page (the best source I have found for flower info)
3-15 evergreen violets in bloom (TMT and Hidden Forest intersection)
3-14 (60 and sunny) first butterfly (species unknown)
3-14 (60 and sunny) first butterfly (species unknown)
3-14 first pollinating moth (Puget power line)
3-14 willow on the Puget Power trail goes into bloom, working on the species
3-14 full flowers on mouse-ear cress or thalecress, gas line trail (Arabidopsis thaliana)
3-12 (upper 40's mostly sunny) first bee, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-12 first pollinating beetle, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-12 first bee, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-11 first skunk cabbage bloom (gas line road, culvert near the big tree trail)
3-5 (sunny in the 40's) first hoverfly, first significantly sized fly family (midge or gnat)
3-2 first shoots, great or northern giant horsetail, swamp trail, water-covered portion (Equisetum telmateia)
3-2 flower buds, mouse-ear cress or thalecress, gas line trail (Arabidopsis thaliana)
3-1 flower buds, currant (probably red flowering) just above East Sunset Way trailhead
2-27 red huckleberry in bloom, multiple trails, (Vaccinium parvifolium) parvifolium means small-leafed
2-27 Pacific waterleaf shoots (Park Pointe)
2-27 sitka willow flower buds (gas line trail, end of Big Tree trail)
2-25 cherry plum blooming (Tradition Lake loop)
2-24 first moths (American idia, small, tan-orange, same species that came out first last year)
2-24 colt's foot in bloom, poo poo point trail
2-22 salmonberry flowers (Swamp trail)
2-22 tall Oregon grape flowers open (Power Line above Sunset Way)
2-17 stinging nettle shoots
2-14 colt's foot flower buds (Poo Poo Point trail)
2-13 colt's foot (Petasites frigidus) shoots appear (section line, they must have been many days earlier on the Poo Poo point trail)
2-13 red elderberry leaves (Sambucas racemosa)
2-8 tall Oregon grape flower buds (Mahonia aquifolium)
2-2 oso-berry flower (Oemleria cerasiformis)
2-1 male Pacific Wrens singing for mates and territory
3-12 first pollinating beetle, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-12 first bee, tall Oregon grape above East Sunset
3-11 first skunk cabbage bloom (gas line road, culvert near the big tree trail)
3-5 (sunny in the 40's) first hoverfly, first significantly sized fly family (midge or gnat)
3-2 first shoots, great or northern giant horsetail, swamp trail, water-covered portion (Equisetum telmateia)
3-2 flower buds, mouse-ear cress or thalecress, gas line trail (Arabidopsis thaliana)
3-1 flower buds, currant (probably red flowering) just above East Sunset Way trailhead
2-27 red huckleberry in bloom, multiple trails, (Vaccinium parvifolium) parvifolium means small-leafed
2-27 Pacific waterleaf shoots (Park Pointe)
2-27 sitka willow flower buds (gas line trail, end of Big Tree trail)
2-25 cherry plum blooming (Tradition Lake loop)
2-24 first moths (American idia, small, tan-orange, same species that came out first last year)
2-24 colt's foot in bloom, poo poo point trail
2-22 salmonberry flowers (Swamp trail)
2-22 tall Oregon grape flowers open (Power Line above Sunset Way)
2-17 stinging nettle shoots
2-14 colt's foot flower buds (Poo Poo Point trail)
2-13 colt's foot (Petasites frigidus) shoots appear (section line, they must have been many days earlier on the Poo Poo point trail)
2-13 red elderberry leaves (Sambucas racemosa)
2-8 tall Oregon grape flower buds (Mahonia aquifolium)
2-2 oso-berry flower (Oemleria cerasiformis)
2-1 male Pacific Wrens singing for mates and territory
mouse ear cress, thalecress
evergreen violet, redwood violet
colt's foot
https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Petasites%20frigidusoso-berry
red huckleberry
skunk cabbage
cherry plum
tall Oregon grape
salmonberry
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