June 17, 2021: Grassy Knoll (Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington)

After hiking an improvised loop at Grassy Knoll, I took the long way around and stopped at Spirit Falls (on the Little White Salmon River).

Grassy Knoll

sooty grouse, following my car
thread-leaf phacelia
fine-tooth penstemon
Table Mountain & furrowed meadows
huge wild strawberry
white-crowned sparrow nest & eggs
varied-leaf collomia
leafy pea-vine
Cascade penstemon
spotted coral-root orchid
western columbine
blue-head gilia
fine-tooth penstemon
common cryptantha
leggy spreading phlox
montane spring parsley
mitten-shaped galls on a serviceberry leaf
naked broomrape
checker lily seed-pods
cicada
Oregon catchfly
wildflowers
heart-leaf buckwheat
Columbia kitten-tails, going to seed
little-leaf montia
silver-leaf phacelia
harsh paintbrush
heart-leaf buckwheat
spring parsley & cliff penstemon
cliffs below Grassy Knoll
Grassy Knoll
nine-leaf desert parsley, anomalous version
broad-leaf stonecrop
wildflowers
taper-tip onions, budding
wildflowers
wildflowers
Mount Hood, the Columbia River, & the ridge below Grassy Knoll
slender mountain sandwort
spurred lupines
nodding microseris
white western groundsel
Fendler's waterleaf
beargrass
Cascade mountain-ash flowers, budding
glacier lily seed-pods
paintbrush
sticky cinquefoil
Olympic onions
upland larkspur
big-head clover
radially-symmetric larkspur
radially-symmetric larkspur
radially-symmetric larkspur
broad-leaf arnica
feathery false solomon's-seal
margined white butterfly on penny-cress
mountain penny-cress
Mount Adams
chickweed
subalpine mariposa lilies
balsamroot
sulphur-flower buckwheat
three-parted mitrewort
small-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
Mount Hood & Grassy Knoll
western sweet-cicely
inside-out flower, budding
starry false solomon's-seal
mystery leaves
Cascade penstemon, budding
subalpine mariposa lily & Olympic onions
bunchberry flowers
Mount Adams & cliffs
cliff penstemon
Mount Adams & Big Lava Bed
mariposa lily & penstemon
fine-tooth penstemon
alpine alumroot
pika
bald-hip rose
rosy pussy-toes
Lindley's clarkia

Spirit Falls

Little While Salmon River's valley
ocean spray
blue-head gilia
rosy plectritis
Lewis' mock orange
Spirit Falls
Spirit Falls
Spirit Falls
gorge below Spirit Falls
stream-bank arnica
Spirit Falls
Little White Salmon River
wild rose
twisted twinflower
fork-tooth ookow

Highway 14, Skamania County

western evening-primrose
giant blazing star

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