September 17, 2016: Broken Top (Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon)

The weather deteriorated throughout the day, but I made it to the top.
lava cave entrance
pahoehoe lava
lava cave
lava stalactites
square-legged camel cricket
sunrise
lenticular cloud over South Sister
South Sister & black-tailed deer
Broken Top & Fall Creek
Fall Creek Falls
western mountain aster
Fall Creek & Newberry lava flow
Suksdorf's paintbrush
Broken Top & Green Lakes
South Sister & pumice plains
climber's trail
Broken Top
Broken Top's summit
springs & buttes
South Sister & wind-driven clouds
cobwebby paintbrush
alpine buckwheat
Broken Top
Broken Top
Three Sisters & Broken Top's northwest ridge
view to the northeast
view to the south-southwest
Broken Top's summit
view to the northeast
alpine spring-beauty leaf rosette
South Sister, Green Lakes, & Broken Top's northwest ridge
snowfield & Tam McArthur Rim
colorful rocks east of Bend Glacier
Broken Top's summit
ledge on the west side of the summit block
Broken Top's summit block
Broken Top's east ridge
Broken Top's crater
Broken Top's south ridge and Peak 9094
rainbow above Park Meadow
climbers descending the rope
scree slope & Green Lakes
scree slope
dwarf alpine-gold
cloud-covered summit block & knotweed leaves
pumice slopes & South Sister
alpine buckwheat
silvery raillardella
South Sister & Green Lakes
thin platy rock
spring
hooded ladies'-tresses
tundra aster & heather leaves
large mountain monkeyflower
little elephant's-head lousewort, going to seed
spring-fed stream
Broken Top & Green Lakes
Fall Creek & Devil's Hill
tundra aster
Fall Creek

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