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Get Out and Go Member
Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 2127 | TRs | Pics Location: Leavenworth |
Lewisia on Tumwater
Worth the annoyance. I like to do the whole traverse every few years. Maybe that's because by then I've forgotten what a pain the blowdown is.
Crap Crossing
Anyway, we started out at the end of Ranger Road which was gated in the morning but open by the time we came out in the afternoon. Huh? So a nice little uphill road walk to warm up on. We took a couple of road forks to the left to lead us to the south saddle of the ridge. From there off-trail travel began and so did the Tweedy's Lewisia as well as countless other varieties.
Old Growth Survivors Tumwater Mountain Highpoint
We ate lunch at the highpoint which is a flowery knoll farther south and east than the rock in the woods that juts up. We worked our way through the junk and were finally spit out on the best part of the ridge, the northern bald knobs.
Big Lou Drury Falls Lewisia on Tumwater Phlox Above the Wenatchee River Valley Lewisia Above the Wenatchee River Valley Wildflower Variety Looking to Chumstick Ridiculous Blooms Tumwater North
We hit the road, heard the Bike & Brew Bash echoing up from Freund, followed some bear prints, and looped on down. Great outing!
Tumwater North
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
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wildernessed viewbagger
Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 9275 | TRs | Pics Location: Wenatchee |
Nice flowers, I ended up on Chumstick that day, I couldn't get motivated to cross those log piles again.
Living in the Anthropocene
Living in the Anthropocene
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the Zachster Member
Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 4776 | TRs | Pics Location: dog training |
I lewisia!!! With everything else being so late this year, it seems like the lewisia are early... I need to go find me some!
"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
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Get Out and Go Member
Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 2127 | TRs | Pics Location: Leavenworth |
"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
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