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rozoneill: Me, deliriously happy
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rozoneill: Dusty trails through stands of lodgepole was the theme of today's hiking
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rozoneill: The tip of Mount Thielsen is just visible
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rozoneill: Carpenter ants never rest
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rozoneill: Trail, as it climbed up and over a thinly wooded ridge
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rozoneill: View to nearby Odell Butte
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rozoneill: Young lodgepole pines encroached the trail
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rozoneill: Looks a lot shadier than it actually felt
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rozoneill: A moment of zen with dead trees and a live seedling
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rozoneill: Trail through a green stand of trees
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rozoneill: Lodgepole skyline above the trail
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rozoneill: There were several stepovers involving fallen trees laying across the trail
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rozoneill: Ants scurried about on sun-bleached logs
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rozoneill: My view basically, for the next 10 miles or so
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rozoneill: A signpost marks the path to Oldenberg Lake
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rozoneill: I stopped for a brief loll n' laze at Oldenberg Lake
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rozoneill: Ripples paint upon the lake's surface
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rozoneill: The trail now heads uphill, darn it
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rozoneill: Not much else but lodgepole can grow in these poor soils
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rozoneill: Trail, pleasantly flat for the moment
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rozoneill: A tree paints its shadow upon the trail
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rozoneill: All the lodgepole pine you could ever want to look at
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rozoneill: This way to Bingham Lakes
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rozoneill: Can't see the forest for the trees
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rozoneill: First look at the first of the Bingham Lakes
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rozoneill: Binghham Lakes shoreline
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rozoneill: View from my turnaround point
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rozoneill: Return to the thin forest
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rozoneill: I spent the day immersed in all things lodgepole
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rozoneill: A dry and dusty trail it was