« 2020-08 Sierra Nevada

August 5, 2020: Horseshoe Meadows (Inyo National Forest, California)

I spent the afternoon at Horseshoe Meadows and Round Valley (about 10,000 feet above sea level) in hopes of getting a tiny bit acclimated for Mt. Whitney the following day.
Lone Pine Peak & Mt. Whitney, through haze
turtleback (mealy rosettes)
giant woolly-stars
Mojave beardtongue
beaked penstemon
Owens Valley
Kern frasera
tiny lupine
Peak 12336 & Horseshoe Meadow
club-moss mouse-tail
northern goldenrod
Sierra gentian
Mount Langley
fireweed
woolly groundsel
granite
Mulkey Meadows & the Toowa Range
Olancha Peak & Mulkey Meadows
shaggy hawkweed
snow plant, going to seed
Rothrock's keckiella
Bigelow's sneezeweed
Mount Langley & Round Valley
Cirque Peak & Round Valley
owl's claws (orange sneezeweed)
carpet clover
varied-leaf cinquefoil
wild tarragon
lustrous copper butterfly on cinquefoil
short-ray fleabane
Sierra penstemon
Salmon Creek paintbrush
skipper butterfly on Sierra gentian
alpine-flames
Sierra gentian
tundra asters
Parish's yampah
field ivesia
twin arnica
pumice alpine-gold
Sierra mouse-tail
matted Brewer's lupine
spurry buckwheat
Sierra cryptantha, going to seed
pussypaws leaves
fritillary butterfly on rough rabbitbrush
Horseshoe Meadow
white water buttercup
alpine gentian
western long-leaf aster
California mountain pincushion
dwarf monkeyflower
Horseshoe Meadow
white-stem hedge-nettle
wavy-leaf paintbrush
bastard-sage buckwheat
scarlet gilia
Sierra angelica
yellow rabbitbrush
coyote mint
Rothrock's fiddle-leaf (ball-head nama)
Timosea Peak & Owens Valley panorama
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, & Inyo Mountains
evening clouds over Mt. Whitney
Lone Pine Peak

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