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kepPNW: Nice display of penstemon right at the Red Rock Pass trailhead.
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kepPNW: Plenty of beargrass blooming across the lava fields nearest the trailhead.
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kepPNW: Plenty of beargrass blooming across the lava fields nearest the trailhead.
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kepPNW: Just a faint outline of the clouded-over volcano. Definitely wasn't a day to be up there!
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kepPNW: Plenty of beargrass blooming across the lava fields nearest the trailhead.
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kepPNW: This beargrass bloom was sure opening in a strange manner.
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kepPNW: Plenty of beargrass blooming across the lava fields nearest the trailhead.
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kepPNW: Dewdrops on the strawberry blooms.
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kepPNW: Just a cool section of trail over lava and through the forest.
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kepPNW: Little stream flowing down a lucious green draw with giant trees all around.
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kepPNW: Vanilla Leaf
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kepPNW: Giant silver (or noble?) fir growing on top of a huge boulder.
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kepPNW: Moss draped forest trail.
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kepPNW: Crossing a washout gully through a fairly recent lahar.
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kepPNW: Manzanita in bloom.
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kepPNW: The crossing of Coldspring Creek is a jumble of logs and boards.
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kepPNW: Coldspring Creek flows into, and then out of, Blue Lake.
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kepPNW: The crossing of Coldspring Creek is a jumble of logs and boards.
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kepPNW: Approaching Blue Lake, which is really more of a marsh than a lake.
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kepPNW: Spotted Sandpipers were flitting all about the lakeshore. This one paused just long enough to snag this shot.
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kepPNW: "Blue Lake"
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kepPNW: The snags reflecting on the calm lake remind this old nerd of a waveform audio graph.
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kepPNW: Calm quiet cove on Blue Lake.
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kepPNW: Best view of the mountain, so far, all day. Crater rim still fully swirling in clouds.
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kepPNW: Trying to find a trail that seems to only exist on old maps. Supposed to run from the Blue Lake TH towards Goat Lake Marsh, but...?
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kepPNW: Awesome, and damn near microscopic, little lichen "blooms" of some sort?
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kepPNW: Awesome, and damn near microscopic, little lichen "blooms" of some sort?
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kepPNW: A couple of leg bones, criss-crossed, in the forest.
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kepPNW: At least the "lost trail" was in an area that was generally easy to wander without too many "bushes" to whack.
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kepPNW: Only actual sign that the trail may have once been somewhere in this vicinity! Well, other than a trail of old beer cans that followed roughly what was figured to be "the" trail.