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The Mt Moloch, Mt Baal peak complex in the fall with a cap cloud starting to form. Northern Selkirk Mountains of southeast B.C. For the best view check it out in lightbox - it's like you were standing there at the tripod without the feeling of frost in
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A granitic alpine boulder, worked into place by frost and ice. The shallow soil in the area is full of rock fragments from the underlying granite.
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An Oriental Poppy - Papaver orientale a poppy which does not produce narcotic alkaloids but does produce thebaine which can be converted into narcotic alkaloids orders of magnitude more potent than morphine.
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Mt. Moloch in the late summer. The first snow has already caused the trees to change colour and the karst sump drainage of Downie Lake is now a trickle.