Please register or login . High ridges stand to the northeast and southwest of the creeks and rise abruptly and staggeringly steep from about 900 feet to 6,234 feet on Mount Watson standing approximately in the center of the area. Forested slopes are carved by many deep drainages. The lower forest is old growth fir, cedar and hemlock with a dense understory of ferns, mosses and salal, foot entangling elderberry and salmonberry, mixed with nasty devils club along the streams. Hidden in the forest are black-tailed deer, black bears, elk and northern spotted owls.
Some alpine meadows open the ridgetops.
Annual precipitation reaches 150 inches. National forestland, roadless and primitive and undesignated, surrounds the Wilderness to the east, west and south. You will not find much at all in the way of trails or humans. There are about one dozen lakes, primarily reached by cross-country scrambling. Click here to find out how.