I took this photo in the mist with a very cheap camera in July of 2013 at the start of the 4000 foot climb up the very steep side of San Gil mountain in Guatemala. The reason the area looks like this is that the huge trees around the base of the mountain were logged out in the 1970's. Beautiful in its own gnarly way, this is the kind of growth that grew back. I view it as Nature's response to modern logging methods. I was there when this was happening, and the earth movers churned up so much mud and water they created deep, treacherous mud lakes. Tree-dwelling animals such as monkeys and beautiful little golden kinkajous were killed and maimed by the thousands. At least the wilderness is doing what it can to grow back! The "Tarzan swinging vines" used to have tall trees to grow up, and now that there are none, they are gravitationally restricted so grow chain-like lumps because they cannot stretch up or out as they dangle down from the branches! Deeper into the horrendous ascent up the mountain, to an extent, the large trees return, but now it was the effects of global warming that I noticed. So many healthy trees felled by forceful Caribbean storms... I could not take reasonable photos for most of the rest of the six hour climb because it was so dark under the canopy of trees, but I do have a few, including a friendly one of a mountain stream that I plan to eventually post!