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rozoneill: The masked hiking bandita
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rozoneill: Fireweed thrived in the fire's aftermath
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rozoneill: What the Archie Creek Fire hath wrought
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rozoneill: We set out on the ravaged (but newly opened) trail
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rozoneill: It was Queen Anne's lace blooming time
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rozoneill: The trail squeezes through a cleft in a huge rock
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rozoneill: Ladybugs huddle under a sheltering umbel of pearly everlasting
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rozoneill: Pearly everlasting provides an umbrella for the ladybug crowd
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rozoneill: The local geology was exposed by the fire
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rozoneill: Fall Creek tumbles down its debris-clogged drainage
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rozoneill: We were hiking in a graveyard of trees
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rozoneill: With the forest burned up, Fall Creek is easier to see
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rozoneill: Some of the rugged topography that Fall Creek has to flow through
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rozoneill: Fall Creek squeezes through a narrow cleft
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rozoneill: A massive cliff provided some basaltic rock formations for us to gawk at
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rozoneill: Fractal art, basalt style
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rozoneill: More cliff and more rock formation
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rozoneill: The trail cuts through the vegetation replacing the forest
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rozoneill: White hawkweed bloomed cream-colored throughout this area
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rozoneill: Thriving vegetation seriously encroached the trail
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rozoneill: Looking seedy this time of year
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rozoneill: A fly alights on a head of pearly everlasting
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rozoneill: Debris from the fire clogs the creek bed
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rozoneill: A rock stands resolute and steadfast in the creek's current
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rozoneill: Islands in the Fall Creek stream
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rozoneill: A fading agoseris flower
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rozoneill: Peek-a-boo, I see you!
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rozoneill: Elk clover (aralia californica)
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rozoneill: Cluster thistle thrived in the increased sunlight of the burn zone
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rozoneill: Before the fire, we could not see both upper and lower falls at the same time