42. Fish Creek Mountain

The remnants of the Fish Creek Mountain Trail trace the spine of the mountain through what was once a series of old-growth stands along an elevational gradient leading to the mountaintop summit. Old Douglas-fir near the trailhead transitioned to a mixed stand with noble fir and Pacific silver fir mingled in, and finally a classic high-elevation silver fir and mountain hemlock old-growth stand clustered around High Lake just below the peak. Unfortunately, the Riverside Fire (2020) burned through here with extreme severity leaving an abundance of large snags and very few surviving live trees.