August 6, 2016: Ape Canyon & Lava Canyon (Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington)

Aside from an amazing patch of black huckleberries at about 4100', Ape Canyon turned out to be a pretty boring trail. So we also went to Lava Canyon before heading home.
Mt. St. Helens & a lahar deposit
red huckleberries
manzanita flowers
thimbleberries
Scouler's harebells
indian pipe
huge clump of indian pipe
red elderberries
Peak 4666
lupine
black huckleberries
noble fir with cones
Ape Canyon
Mt. St. Helens
silverback luina, going to seed
wildflowers
wildflowers & Mt. Adams
wildflowers
huckleberries
Cascade asters
yarrow, asters, & paintbrush
ring of manzanita
Mt. St. Helens
Ape Canyon & Mt. Adams
Pumice Butte & Mt. Adams
dwarf lupines
pearly everlasting
Mt. St. Helens
top of Ape Canyon
wildflowers
Mt. St. Helens
coral-root orchid, gone to seed
woodland beard-tongue (turtle-head)
twisted-stalk berries: red, orange, & yellow
baneberries
tall trees
oval-leaf huckleberries
knobby mushrooms
kinky pinesap
bunchberries
Columbia windflower seeds
Sierra dome spider
Oregon stonecrop
cascades
Oregon stonecrop & a waterfall

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