You can’t touch this.......😳
Pouring rain, and we have a bumper crop of these weeds!😲
“Be careful Silvertop, if you brush up against one of these plants it will burn for hours!!😯”
We passed the High Trail, and hiked downhill to “Bear Hollow “, and a forest of very rapidly growing Stinging Nettle!
They are already knee high, except for the occasional one that gets stepped on!😇
Moving to the Northwest over 21 years ago from the High County of Colorado, I had no experience with these potentially very painful weeds.
I remember running our gas powered string trimmer, and getting blisters on my forearms!😯
I didn’t even know why at first......
They like the darker Maple tree sections of the forest, it’s a good thing the trail is wide here, they can get six foot plus in height!
We climbed up higher, to the Douglas Fir forest, Liz and 
I think
“We did the full long hike Liz, how about we head home for some of your decadent Amish apple cake........I think we all burned some calories today!”
Even
Till tomorrow Silvertop Mike 😊
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