That's very much like my area, the SW coast of BC, which is "temperate rainforest", with emphasis on the "rain". When I took out a recent visitor to the Sasquatch Shindig outing near Harrison back in early August for a tour through our research area, she repeatedly remarked on how dense the forest and the underbrush were, and that anything 3 steps off the trail would be invisible. I had her worried that I'd driven off the trail, as she couldn't see the track I was following in the Hummer due to the overhanging brush.