Photo of the day

I went for a different hike today because the tram was closed.  I had hiked up to about 8,800 feet and gone close to 5 miles when I came across a two hikers who had stopped to photograph a flower.  I was glad to see that they had stopped because I might have overlooked it. […]

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I am pretty sure that I don’t have this flower in my collection.  I found it while going off trail a short ways near 7,600 feet on the whitewash trail.

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Today’s photo of the day holds good news and bad news. The good news is that there are flowers about, and that means that it’s getting warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt. The bad news is that it’s warm enough to hike in shorts and a t-shirt because that means that just […]

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The mountain has been drenched this summer and especially so these last couple of weeks.  I suspect that it must have rained on it even within the last few days because of all the water pouring off of it today. Flowers are busting out all over the place, especially ones that need lots of water. […]

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It’s good to be back on the mountain and it rewarded me this morning with an unusual abundance of wildflowers. Although August was dry, it appears that the July rains and the most recent rains have brought out the flowers in mass. I saw a splash of red very early on in my hike and […]

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