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Olympic National Park, Hoh Rainforest.

Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center.

Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center.

Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) near the Hall of Moss Trailhead.

Old-growth Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) along the Hall of Moss Trail.

Taft Creek along the Hall of Moss Trail.

Taft Creek along the Hall of Moss Trail.

Taft Creek along the Hall of Moss Trail.

Hall of Moss Trail.

Hall of Moss Trail.

Broom moss (Dicranum scoparium) on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Hall of Moss Trail.

Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) covered in mosses on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) covered in mosses on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) covered in mosses and licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) covered in mosses on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) covered in mosses on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Moss showing its stalk and capsule on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) covered in mosses Hall of Moss Trail.

Hall of Moss Trail.

Oregon beaked moss (Kindbergia oregana) on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Old-growth Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Western hemlocks (Tsuga heterophyllaand) and the remnants of an old "nurse" log on the Hall of Moss Trail.

Photo Date:

08/06/2009

Backlit moss is just the best.