North slope mountain dirt grows enough types of flora to keep a botanist busy for a lifetime. You gotta be goofy if you don’t think there’s any rich soil anywhere in these mountains.
Very true Brent. Not uncommon to have 40+ different species on a 1/100th acre plot(which is a 11.78’ radius plot) on a North facing slope close to a big drain. Find the ginseng or any of the trillium species and you find good dirt is a good rule of thumb.