Trail along Marysville Creek, originally a jeep road, which has been a foot path for years and is now seriously overgrown. (Google still shows it as a road. Google is wrong!) Two of the more obnoxious overgrowing plants are seen here: Russian olive (exotic, with the pale gray-green leaves), and roses (native, with the darker green leaves and red fruiting bodies). Both have big thorns, which inspired the following bit of doggerel:
Roses are thorny;
Russian olives are too.
We're bound to get bloody
As we push our way thru!

And we did--but a friend of ours says you must always leave some blood on the mountain on an excursion, otherwise you weren't pushing hard enough! Not sure I agree--