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Hiking trails and places visited in Gros Morne National Park
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Bonne Bay - East Arm
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Across Bonne bay - South Arm towards Gros Morne Mt.
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Lookout Trail and Bonne Bay - South Arm
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It didn't take long to find them - Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) - Newfoundland's flower
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Canadian Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
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Confluence of Bonne Bay South and East arms, Long Range Mts. - the northern most part of the Canadian Appalachians
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Bonne Bay - South Arm, Long Range Mts.
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Panorama of Bonne Bay - South Arm and Long Range Mts.
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Panorama of Gros Morne from Partridgeberry Hill
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Small Purple Fringed Orchid ( Platanthera psycodes)
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Lookout Trail and Tablelands (right) - last are a piece of upper mantle thrusted on top of the the Laurentian continental margin during the Taconian orogeny
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Sweet American wintergreen (Pyrola americana)
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White Bog Orchid (Platanthera dilatata)
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Canadian Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
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From Rocky Harbour towards Lookout Hills
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Across Bonne Bay towards Lookout Hills
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Gros Morne Mt.
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The gully up the mountain - our trail
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Gros Morne Mt. - Cambrian quartzite cap of the Labrador Group
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SW view towards the Tablelands in the background
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Moose near the top
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SW view towards the Bonne Bay
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Close up of the Eastern Arm, Bonne Bay & Tablenlands (redish)
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SW panorama from near the top of Gros Morne Mt.
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Surprised to find a Short-tailed Swallowtail sitting on the Cambrian quartzite (Papilio brevicauda) on the top of the mountain
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10 Mile Pond from Gros Morne Mt.
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10 Mile Pond from Gros Morne Mt. - cut in the Precambrian / Grenville gneiss and granite of the Canadian shield ~1250- 1000 Ma old
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Old fjords carved out in the Long Range Mts.
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Reindeer antler