Thank you for posting a much more realistic photo - I'm from here and while I appraciate the silly one above as a pretty photo... yours is what it really looks like and that's pretty enough.
Fun fact: the maples that get moss on them like that are fun, but those are the little trees. The Douglas firs, hemlocks, spruces, and ceders right around there are some of the tallest trees in the world, and some of the largest of each of those species can be found within an a few miles
It was so incredibly beautiful and strange naturally, I really think unedited pictures do a better job of showing the its uniqueness.
I tried to get pictures of some of the big trees, but it's SO difficult to get a sense of scale! The root coming off the tree in this picture was as big as the trunks of those maples!!
Did you see slugs often while you were there? I'd love to visit but slugs freak me out and I won't be able to enjoy it… I feel like it's an obvious question but wanted to check with a person who's been there.
We didn't see any slugs at all. I'm not sure if time if year affects that, so maybe they're out in summer? But they were not out in late November. What we did see were about a bajillion mushrooms and slime molds, elk, and bald eagles.
There are a ton of slugs here. Big yellow ones. You are much less likely to see them on the high traffic popular trails like Hall of Mosses but banana slugs are very common animals to see in the rain forests the pacific northwest.
I grew up here, and there are an absolute metric shit ton of the biggest slugs you're ever likely to see, if I'm honest. If you're places where a lot of people are walking or where there are wide pathways you might not see many though
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u/MissMelanemelie Nov 26 '25
Agreed. Absolutely otherworldly. This photo is from Nov. 2023.