July 3, 2020: Boulder Lake/Bonney Meadows & Tygh Creek Trail (Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon)

Two very different hikes on the east side of Mt. Hood. Tygh Creek was a bit of an afterthought — and the flowers were mostly done — but I liked it.

Boulder Lake Trail to Bonney Meadows

northwest twayblade
Spinning Lake
Boulder Lake
silver-crown luina
borad-leaf arnica
subalpine fleabane
broad-leaf bluebells
crimson columbine
bracted lousewort
rainiera, budding
Drummond's rock-cress
shrubby penstemon
polytrichum moss
cliff penstemon
California jacob's-ladder
wildflowers below a talus field
alpine sandwort & cliff penstemon
alpine sandwort
evergreen violet
plantain-leaf buttercups
shooting stars & buttercups
slender green bog orchid, budding
Oregon anemone
wet meadow
slender cotton-grass
alpine mountain shooting stars
western false asphodel
flower fly on tundra aster
western bog laurel
white marsh-marigold
western bog laurel
white bog orchid
slender green bog orchid
Hansen's long-stalk clover
elephant's-head lousewort
pink mountain heather
Oregon saxifrage
elephant's-head lousewort
subalpine meadow
creamy stonecrop, budding
glaucous penstemon
view to the northeast
Cascade penstemon
paintbrush
mariposa lily & desert parsley
broad-leaf lupine
beargrass pollen
Little Boulder Lake
bead lily
lodgepole pine flowers

Tygh Creek Trail

big deer-vetch
speckled gall wasp galls on an oak leaf
pipsissewa
coral-root orchid fruit
Scouler's harebells
Nevada deer-vetch
grand collomia
rayless arnica
worm-leaf stonecrop
taper-tip onions
Tygh Creek Valley
Ball Point
elegant rein orchid
arrow-leaf balsamroot seed-heads
heart-leaf buckwheat
deer-brush
snowberry flowers
tooth-leaf pyrola
lowly penstemon
pinedrops
Douglas' pincushion
acute paintbrush
white-stem frasera
agoseris, gone to seed
Douglas' catchfly
bastard toad-flax fruit
rough eyelash-weed
elkhorn clarkia
desert yellow fleabane
silver-crown luina seed-heads
white-stem frasera
bare-stem desert parsley, gone to seed
rock buckwheat
Carey's balsamroot
diamond clarkia
tons of galls on serviceberry leaves
western groundsel seed-heads
Hootnanny Point
Ball Point
mahala mat seed-pods

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