[half fast]

Thanks for the TR, wonderful photos and memories... WOW... did you guys ever hit this trail at the perfect time !!! I love this hike... lots of variety... you can go for miles and Awesome views when you hit the ridge. This is also one of my favorite hikes on your side of the pond... and when I lived there, I did my best to do this hike every spring and fall. Thanks for sharing...

[peltoms]

Best meadows of flowers I have seen in this late summer of blooms, nice.

[Karen²]

Very nice! I have to say I'm surprised the bugs weren't bad, especially wth all the blooming flowers. I've been up Skyline and Chowder ridge 3 times during the bloom and the bugs were insane each time! Very lucky timing! Gorgeous photos of one of my favourite local areas. You guys seem to do a fair bit up at Baker, next time drop us a line, we're just a hop skip and jump across the border perhaps we should hook up one of these times.

[Dani]

Love this one. Great photos too. This weekend is looking like another beautiful one too. Went to Sheep Lake last weekend and I would agree the flowers are in their prime right now.

[The Angry Hiker]

I guess they don't have any rules about stomping around in the meadows up there. Out of curiosity, do you know what this is?

[Sadie's Driver]

[Popcorn]

Thanks, Z. Great photos. "...The hillsides were covered with yellow, pink, blue and even some pink decorations..." By any chance, did you happen to see any pink/red "paintbrush" that far north? Marta, the botanist can confirm this, but the local guidebooks on wildflowers in the Cascades say that only white "paintbrush" can usually be found north of Mount Rainier. (Can animals spread wildflower seeds to different--not "natural"--locations?)

[Ingunn]

Popcorn, there were some tiny clusters of red paintbrush along the ridge to our campsite, but in the main meadows they were all (as far as I noticed) white. I'd never seen an undipped paintbrush before!

[Highwalker's Daughter]

It is a wonderful hike! We tend to go to Excelsior over Skyline Divide, but your pictures remind me that I need to go back across the valley again. Thanks for posting them.

[the Zachster]

Thanks everyone for your nice comments! Joker: I'm pretty sure we stopped at the bump you're talking about. There was a tent there when we showed up and we thought it was an awesome site! Popcorn: We did see a few paintbrushes from a distance. The little bit of pink that we saw was heather. The blue/purple was the lupine. The white and yellow was alot of little things I don't know the names of. S.D. : Baker is a gorgeous dog, but don't tell Cedar I said that... Ingunn: Beautiful pics, more please! The sunset looked as wonderful as I thought it would be for you! Karen: You're right, we need to do that!