July 31, 2024: Mount Ellinor (Olympic National Forest, Washington)

I went up the "winter route" and down the normal trail. The two routes had very vibes, and I highly recommend making a loop out of them.
Douglas' spirea
salal berries
red huckleberries
fireweed
twinflower
the trail
candystick/sugar-stick
Olympic paintbrush
Columbia tiger lilies
harebells
western sweet-vetch seed pods
wildflowers
Sitka bumblebee & edible thistle
wildflowers
subalpine fleabane
western pasqueflower seed head
small-flowered alumroot
Olympic asters
yellow coral-bells (fuzzy elmera) & silver-leaf phacelia
cow parsnip
Lewis' monkeyflower
Oregon sunshine
Olympic rock-mat, going to seed
harsh paintbrush
sickle-top lousewort
alpine lady fern
rusty saxifrage
wildflowers & clouds
Nevada bumblebee on broad-leaf lupine
huge boulder
spreading phlox
western columbine & Davidson's penstemon
Flett's/Olympic fleabane
broad-leaf arnica & western sweet-vetch
winter route gulch
arnica with very wide petals
Columbia lewisia
wildflowers
partridgefoot
view to the south
glacier lily seed pods
Eschscholtz's hairy rock-cress
wildflowers
bowl full of snowfields
south side of Mount Ellinor
Davidson's penstemon
Mount Pershing
Olympic violet
Mount Washington
Point B
Olympic Mountains panorama
cut-leaf fleabane
Lyall's rock-cress
Flett's ragwort
Horse's Mouth
Mount Ellinor's summit
Olympic rock-mat, going to seed
unnamed crag & Point A
rust fungus on a rock-cress
white & pink mountain heather
Olympic paintbrush
Horse's Mouth, Point B, & Point A
Flett's/Olympic fleabane
eastern Olympic Mountains
moss campion, going to seed
anemone (which?), going to seed
yellow mountain heather, going to seed
tufted saxifrage
dwarf-primrose (smooth douglasia), fading
alpine bitter-cress fruits
Cascade desert parsley
heather, clouds, & mountains
Olympic bellflower/harebells
Mount Washington & Mount Ellinor's east ridge
Sitka mist-maidens
north side of Mount Ellinor
raceme pussy-toes
silky phacelia, going to seed
alpine smelowskia
weird spotted saxifrage
rosy pussy-toes
scarlet paintbrush
spreading stonecrop
Sitka valerian
wildflowers
mystery larkspur
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
small-flowered penstemon
coiled-beak lousewort
wildflowers
Olympic asters
meadows on the south side of Mount Ellinor
Douglas' catchfly
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
trail through wildflowers
rockslide larkspur
western sweet-vetch
wildflowers
stream-bank arnica
wildflowers
little pipsissewa
one-sided wintergreen
turtle-head (woodland penstemon)
pipsissewa
Scouler's harebell
coastal mugwort/wormwood
kneeling angelica
yellow willow-herb
dark red salmonberry
slender bog orchid

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