This little plant has mean, persistent thorns. They are small enough to get under your skin and more or less become painful splinters. They can take weeks to get out, unless you like digging into your skin with knives and needles.
Enough complaining. Onward!
Nooks and Crannies 
looks a lot like Rubus parviflorus to me. thimbleberry also has those annoying thorns that break off in your skin.
upon further consideration, Salmonberry thickets have thorns like your photo. Rubus spectabilis also has peeling bark.
I think your right. Definitely not wood rose as i had originally thought.