On route to an old-growth Eastern hemlock stand, we’re waylaid by a hiker keen to share her sighting of a Lady’s Slipper, a prolific orchid with a pink, pouch-shaped flower that she has confused with the rare Hooker’s orchid the park wants citizen scientists to keep an eye out for. We pause to admire ruby red teaberries and bunchberries with tiny but showy white “flowers” made up of four oval bracts, rub sweetfern to inhale its namesake scent, and gently finger the ragged lung lichen that proliferate on tree trunks.