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rozoneill: All hikes should begin with a tunnel
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rozoneill: This was a hot and dusty slog through lodgepole trees
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rozoneill: Where the treasure is buried
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rozoneill: Trail shot
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rozoneill: It really wasn't as shady as this photo looks
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rozoneill: Typical lodgepole forest scenery
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rozoneill: It was a steady but gentle grade uphill
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rozoneill: I have arrived at Timothy Meadow
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rozoneill: All the other trees called him "Lodgepole the Lumpy"
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rozoneill: Dead trees loom overhead
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rozoneill: Even his lumps have lumps
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rozoneill: View to Howlock Mountain
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rozoneill: View to Sawtooth Ridge
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rozoneill: Trail through some low growing grass
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rozoneill: Thielsen Creek snaked below the trail
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rozoneill: Another patch of thin grass with a trail in it
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rozoneill: It was getting greener the closer I got to Thielsen Creek
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rozoneill: Thielsen Creek runs over the trail
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rozoneill: Super-clear waters of Thielsen Creek
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rozoneill: Groundsel adorned the banks of the creek
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rozoneill: Clover thrives on the edge
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rozoneill: Trail through the dust and grass
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rozoneill: Sulphur flower popped up here and there
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rozoneill: Trail shot on the way back
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rozoneill: Still the odd phlox flower every now and then
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rozoneill: Coral fungus emerges from the dark depths
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rozoneill: Strange fungus thingies on a dead tree
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rozoneill: I took the side trail going to Timothy Meadow
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rozoneill: Small-flowered penstemon were blooming in the grasses
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rozoneill: Thielsen Creek, where I waded across