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| This has been dry most of summer; one big rain made a nice wetland |
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| Brown-eyed Susan? I don't know and need to revisit this plant |
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| Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica |
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| Moist trail with shagbark hickory |
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| Moist sandstone bluff in the canyon, with a heavily-lichened dead tree |
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| A closer look at the lichen |
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| Along the trail to Burroughs Mountain, Sunrise area |
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| Amazing views of Rainier along the trail |
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| The area is similar to an Arctic environment; amazingly easy to access |
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| Mount Rainier across the tundra |
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| The last bit before final 2nd Burroughs peak |
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| 2nd Burroughs |
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| It feels like you can touch Rainier while standing on 2nd Burroughs |
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| Amazing place to stand; cold and uber windy |
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| We went back down to 1st Burroughs and took the Sunrise trail to make a loop. Really beautiful trail and less crowded. |
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| Steep slope |
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| Really beautiful trail |
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| Glacier coming off of Ranier |
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| Lake near campground |
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| Wasp nest along trail. It's active - zoom in and you can see a wasp slowly working in the 50f temps |
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| Need to look this one up. Cool, big plant |
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| After being on the tundra, the subalpine zones are so pleasant |
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| End of summer flowers |
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| Rainier got increasingly cloud covered |
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| Awesome bridge over ?? |
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| Amazing canyon that is basically a crack it is so deep and skinny |
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| Another shot from the bridge |
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| Summer flowers in Paradise parking lot |
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| Between parking lots in Paradise |
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| Paradise Lodge in the typical Cascades mist |
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| Independence Pass |
