August 25, 2012: Goat Rocks Wilderness (Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington)

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sickletop lousewort
lupines, bistort, & arnica
Old Snowy Mountain & Ives Peak
lupines & western bistort
lupines and other wildflowers
asters, paintbrush, & lupines
blue copper butterfly on heart-leaf buckwheat
lupines
subalpine fleabane
trail through lupines
pika in a rockpile
lupine & paintbrush
Cascade asters
wildflowers & Jordan Basin
paintbrush & asters
asters & paintbrush
American saw-wort
harebells
Jordan Creek & Mt. St. Helens
Sitka valerian & a cascade
the top of Jordan Basin
white marsh-marigolds
white marsh-marigolds
wildflowers
Goat Creek Valley & Old Snowy Mountain
Goat Ridge panorama
wildflowers
lupines & arnica
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
Mount Adams & Goat Ridge
wildflowers
wildflowers
edible thistle
pale blue lupine & alpine lake agoseris
Mt. Adams & wildflowers
Goat Lake, still frozen
elephant's head lousewort
alpine speedwell
pink mountain heather, spent
Hawkeye Point & lupines
mountain penny-royal
second thoughts
possibly climbable slot
Mount Adams & Goat Creek Valley
mountain goat fur
rockslide larkspur
heart-leaf buckwheat
ridge west of Old Snowy Mountain
Parry's catchfly
pale yellow penstemon
talus willow-herb
watermelon snow
mountain sorrel
Nelson's saxifrage
Hawkeye Point
Peak 7137
Egg Butte
Upper Lake Creek Valley
lupines & arnica
Cascade timberline grasshopper on my wrist
pink mountain heather
coiled lousewort
shooting stars
lupines along the trail
lupines above the trail
lupines below the trail
rusty saxifrage
lupines & pasqueflowers
Goat Creek Valley
wildflowers
small waterfall
zephyr anglewing (hoary comma) butterfly
woolly pussy-toes
backlit stream
avalanche lily, fading
very flat waterfall
subalpine monkeyflower
spreading phlox
marmot, whistling
wildflowers
scree fields & Ives Peak
Goat Ridge & wildflowers
pink lupines
pink lupines
white mountain heather
Old Snowy Mountain, reflected
Ives Peak & lupines
bracted lousewort
moon & wildflowers
cotton-grass
one-sided wintergreen
white bog orchid
Goat Creek
monkshood
tall mountain larkspur
pearly everlasting
Ives Peak
Douglas' spiraea (hardhack)

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