June 25-26, 2006: McKenzie River & Cone Peak/Iron Mountain (Willamette National Forest, Oregon)

McKenzie River (Sahalie & Koosah Falls)

California tortoiseshell butterfly
Sahalie Falls
whitewater
bunchberry
Indian pipe
rapids on the McKenzie River
fallen trees in the McKenzie River
penstemon above the McKenzie River
bottom of Koosah Falls
yellow-leaf iris
long-bracted pink pyrola, budding
Pacific starflower
trailing blackberry
very green-looking water
cedar hairstreak butterfly on an ox-eye daisy
rhododendron, budding
rhododendron
rainbow & mist below Koosah Falls
Koosah Falls
Koosah Falls & rainbow
rainbow below Koosah Falls
Koosah Falls
whitewater and mossy trees
Sahalie Falls
rainbow below Sahalie Falls

Cone Peak & Iron Mountain

Sitka valerian
star-flowered Solomon's seal
Cascade mariposa lily
Oregon Jacob's ladder
large-leaf avens
Menzies' larkspur
Menzies' larkspur
cinquefoil
paintbrush, larkspur, & death-camas
blue-headed gilia
pincushion penstemon
paintbrush & larkspur
larkspur & monkeyflower
Hooker's fairy bells
Cone Peak & wildflowers
patches of monkeyflower on Cone Peak
wildflowers
Cone Peak
larkspur, death-camas, & paintbrush
eroded lava plug on Iron Mountain
blue stickseed
trail through Cone Peak's meadows
monkeyflower, blue-eyed Mary, larkspur, & other wildflowers
South Peak & wildflowers
wildflowers to the east
larkspur, death-camas, & Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain
sticky currant
cliff penstemon & Gordon's alpine ivesia
Echo Mountain & South Peak
Mount Washington
Gordon's alpine ivesia & penstemon
heart-leaf buckwheat, sulphur flower, and two of the Three Sisters
cliff penstemon
Three Sisters
Iron Mountain through a basaltic dike
edge of Cone Peak
edge of Cone Peak
shoulder of Cone Peak from above
Shasta clover
Looking back up at the summit
Cone Peak
trillium, fading to pink
yellow violets
Douglas firs & sunlight
Pacific bleeding hearts
candy flower
wildflowers
wildflowers
blue flax
bluebells
western tailed-blue butterfly
scarlet gilia (skyrocket)
gray sagewort, budding
Columbia windflower

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