By C. F. Lawrenson
In the spring of 2012 my friend, Jerry Hendrickson, and I were hiking along Stony Fork Creek south of where I did The Laughing Place when we discovered this mature hemlock with its intricate root system beneath a large rock outcropping. Although we didn't see a bobcat here, I had seen one a couple of miles from this spot, and it just looked like a perfect place for one, looking for the movement of prey in the morning mist.