August 19, 2020: Noble Knob, Yakima Peak, & Naches Peak (Washington)

Three short hikes east of Mt. Rainier. First, I went to Noble Knob, which was pretty boring because the flowers had already peaked. So I drove back south to Chinook Pass and decided to hike up Yakima Peak (which has no official trail) because I didn't want to deal with crowds. In the late afternoon/evening — after most of the tourists had gone home — I did the Naches Peak loop hike.

Noble Knob (Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest)

Mount Rainier
narrow-sepal phacelia
white spirea
American saw-wort
Scouler's harebells
hairy arnica, going to seed
avalanche lily seed-pods
bumblebee on sharp-tooth angelica
Siberian/umbel bitter-cress
green corn lily, going to seed
mountain arnica
lupine
Nordmann's orb-weaver spider
orange agoseris
Noble Knob
harebells
scarlet paintbrush
Mount Rainier
ridge between Noble Knob & Mutton Mountain
wild strawberries
view to the north
ridge east of Noble Knob
crag near the summit of Noble Knob
spreading stonecrop
spotted saxifrage, going to seed
Parry's catchfly
bracted lousewort, going to seed
George Lake
Mount Rainier, Twentyeight Mile Lake, & Dalles Ridge
partridgefoot
fireweed & Mt. Rainier
black huckleberries
five-leaf bramble berries
burned trees from the 2017 Norse Peak Fire
Parry's arnica

Chinook Pass: Yakima Peak (Mt. Rainier National Park)

Yakima Peak & Cascade asters
bird's-beak lousewort
Tolmie's saxifrage
pink mountain heather
Sourdough Mountains
Deadwood Peak
alpine alumroot
smallish white fleabane
Rydberg's arnica
pink mountain heather & the north side of Yakima Peak
magenta paintbrush & white mountain heather
Mertens' saxifrage
the view from Yakima Peak's north gully
silver-back luina
Naches Peak & Tipsoo Lake
Rainier Fork American River Valley
bitter fleabane
Mount Rainier
Yakima Peak's north gully
chocolate-chip lichen
Deadwood Peak & wildflowers
Cascade asters
Cascades blueberry

Chinook Pass: Naches Peak Loop (Okanogan-Wenatchee NF & Mt. Rainier NP)

Nelson's saxifrage
Lewis' monkeyflower
dwarf bramble
Gray's lovage, budding
fringed grass-of-Parnassus
leather-leaf saxifrage
western columbine
fan-leaf cinquefoil
subalpine fleabane
Cusick's speedwell
Wormskjold's alpine speedwell
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
Cascade timberline grasshoppers
western pasqueflower seed-heads
wildflowers
wildflowers
magenta paintbrush et al.
magenta paintbrush
wildflowers
lupines
wildflowers
fungus gall on white mountain heather
sickle-top lousewort
unusually pink Cascade asters
Dewey Lakes & Dewey Peak
green corn lily
Mount Rainier & clouds
Naches Peak & a pond
black-notched bumblebee on Cascade aster
bracted lousewort
west side of Naches Peak
fuzzy elmera (yellow coral-bells)
pink mountain heather
woolly pussy-toes
magenta paintbrush & white mountain heather
white rhododendron
white lupine
Yakima Peak & Tipsoo Lake
subalpine spirea
Tiling's monkeyflwoer
leather-leaf saxifrage
alpine willow-herb & Tiling's monkeyflower
subalpine spirea
fireweed & pearly everlasting
paintbrush, fireweed, & Naches Peak
Cascade penstemon
larkspur
Mount Rainier, Tipsoo Lake, & Yakima Peak

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