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Hall Mountain Hike, July 26, 2011
This is Hall Mountain, above Sullivan Lake in NE Washington
We drove up the John's Creek road to the trail head, and hiked 2.5 miles to the top, returning the same way. This year has been cool and wet, so the flowers were at their best.
Here's a spruce grouse...
Columbia (Tiger) lillies
The view back towards Usk
Looking down towards the lake.
Shrubby Penstemon, Penstemon fruticosus (Thanks to Jill Wilson with some of the identifications on this page)
Most of the hike was filled with flowers
At the top is the remains of a firetower that burned in a wildfire
Beargrass was pretty common, but in some of the many meadows the blossoms were all lopped off by browsing deer
There were lots of flowers differing from the local ones I mostly know. I'll give them a ? like this one... ?
A species of wild buckwheat, Eriogonum spp
? This had fine grass like leaves (not shown)
Larkspur
Death Camas
Wild Buckwheat Spp, Eriogonum spp
Linum lewisii, blue flax
"Droopin" Lupines
Queen's Cup
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Thalictrum or Meadow Rue
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Yellow Columbine
Yellow Violets (Viola glabella)