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rozoneill: The Pumice Flat trail was mostly flat
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rozoneill: Easy walking...at first
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rozoneill: There wasn't much scenic variety on the Pumice Flat Trail
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rozoneill: Numerous meadows flanked the trail
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rozoneill: An ant tends to a lupine stalk
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rozoneill: While small, the meadows were beautiful
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rozoneill: The trail continues through the lodgepole forest and meadows
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rozoneill: The trail went ever so gradually uphill for the first 3 miles
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rozoneill: Trail through the grasses
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rozoneill: Hey, no need to wait for me, guys!
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rozoneill: Straight through the lodgepole on an old roadbed
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rozoneill: We've just about reached the Pacific Crest Trail
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rozoneill: To the Stuart Falls trail we go
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rozoneill: Fire had visited this area several years ago
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rozoneill: Meadows, everywhere we look
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rozoneill: The Stuart Falls trail lays within the burn zone
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rozoneill: The boundary between life and death
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rozoneill: Ever the foresters
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rozoneill: Aster and fleabane thrived in the meadows
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rozoneill: Some kind of nearly petal-less aster type of flower
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rozoneill: Edwin hikes on the sketchy and rough trail
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rozoneill: At times, the faint trail was really hard to follow
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rozoneill: There were a few live trees here and there
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rozoneill: Skeletons left behind by the fire
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rozoneill: If you like dead trees then you will love this hike!
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rozoneill: Forest fire victims
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rozoneill: Bracken fern loves a good fire zone
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rozoneill: Remnants of forests past
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rozoneill: Onward we go, on an ever warming day
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rozoneill: We were surrounded by burned trees