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rozoneill: Nodding columbines at the start of the hike
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rozoneill: Larkspurs vie for a little bit of sunlight
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rozoneill: The path went in and out of the sun and/or shade
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rozoneill: Some odd little nearly petalless fleabane thingy
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rozoneill: Dwarf onion was common in the hard baked clay soils
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rozoneill: The first part of the hike went through shady forest
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rozoneill: Mt McLaughlin was hidden by the clouds
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rozoneill: Flowers to be
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rozoneill: A cow parsnip leaf bud resembles an alien pod baby
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rozoneill: It was thimbleberry season on Grizzly Peak
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rozoneill: Red bishop caps, all in a row
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rozoneill: Forest skyline
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rozoneill: Columbines were ever plentiful in the shady forest
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rozoneill: The trail wove its way through trees and greenery
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rozoneill: Columbia windflower was in abundance
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rozoneill: The odd brown flower of wild ginger
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rozoneill: Thimbleberry bloom
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rozoneill: They make quite the cute couple
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rozoneill: Soon this will be a plume of wildflowers
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rozoneill: A fly works on its sun tan
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rozoneill: A salmon polemonium is a housing tenement for gnats
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rozoneill: Ever the baneberry
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rozoneill: The male flowers of a western meadowrue
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rozoneill: Near the summit, the trail begins to enter a series of meadows
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rozoneill: A small globe of blue-headed gilia
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rozoneill: Salsify was a thing on this hike
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rozoneill: Odd short-petaled fleabane of some sort
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rozoneill: A salsify attracts a visitor
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rozoneill: Salsify in the warm sunlight
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rozoneill: A beetle makes a home on a fleabane flower