July 27-28, 2013: Mt. Thielsen & Diamond Lake, Oregon

I also posted a full trip report (with fewer photos, but more words) on PortlandHikers.org.

Here's a map.
Mount Bailey & Diamond Lake
Douglas's spirea (hardhack)
police car moth
nettle-leaf horse-mint
western coneflower
candystick
grouse whortleberry
pipsissewa
the trail
pinesap
Mount Thielsen
horseback riders
Mount Thielsen & a Seussian hemlock
Mount Thielsen's summit
sap dripping from a pine branch
remnants of Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake)
Mount Bailey & Diamond Lake
climbing the sketchy trail
gully on the west side of the summit
scree-filled trail & wide views
jacob's-ladder & phacelia leaves
Adam
sticky cinquefoil
scree/talus & volcanic crags
routefinding on chunky scree
sticky cinquefoil
the last section of the "trail"
Holly's Ridge
crags
Adam & Tracy
looking down on Lathrop Glacier
Mt. Thielsen's summit pinnacle
top of Cottonwood Creek
boulders on the summit
view to the north (Howlock Mountain)
view to the south (toward Crater Lake)
Cascade catchfly
dwarf alpine-gold
Tracy on a spur of "Chicken Ridge"
edge of the mountain
a big pinnacle and a snowfield
the summit
layered rock formations
descending a scree field
Lewis' monkeyflower & hairy arnica
Lewis' monkeyflower & hairy arnica
crags & scree
crags & clouds
folded rocks & scree
alpine buckwheat
Shasta knotweed
cobwebby paintbrush
cobwebby paintbrush
pioneer rock-cress
western pasqueflower
mountain hemlock cones
partridgefoot
barren pumice slope
traversing the pumice slope
silvery raillardella leaves
Mount Thielsen
Mount Thielsen
partridgefoot, pink mountain heather, & Mount Thielsen
Thielsen's north ridge
fur
Mount Thielsen
fungus
dwarf lupine
last view of Thielsen
lumpy conifer
Drew's silky lupine (?)
non-hairy primrose monkeyflower
tunnel under Highway 138
smoke from the Douglas Complex Fire
Mt. Thielsen & Diamond Lake
travertine stalactites
travertine stalactites by the river
travertine formations
hot springs
North Umpqua River

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