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I've been sicker than a dog for 12 days now. I picked up some respiratory infection when I was in the Pacific Northwest for my daughter's graduation ceremony. I've been starting to feel a little better the last four days, with gradual improvement each day, but I thought that I might be able to clear the pipes (lungs and sinuses) out with a good hike.
Upper Millcreek Canyon is closed due to construction. They are widening the road in places and upgrading some trailheads, so I had to park at the Burch Hollow Trailhead and hike up the Pipeline Trail to Elbow Fork to pick up the Mount Aire Trailhead. Total roundtrip distance was just over ten miles.
Geraniums were the wildflower of the day as they were prolific from Elbow Fork to the slopes of Mount Aire, with Dwarf sunflowers and Mule-ears running a close second.
A proud mom and dad as Katie received her master's degree last week from the
University of Washington in Seattle.
Over view map of the day's hike
The Jeep has gotten a lot of action these last few weeks
At the Burch Hollow Trailhead
Reaching the Pipeline Trail
Goldeneye
View up Bowman Fork
The Pipeline Trail
Streambank wild hollyhock
Feverfew
The balsamroot flowers are no more
Looking west towards the mouth of Millcreek Canyon
Reaching the Burch Hollow Trail
Wild rose
Spreading dogbane
Grand collomia
Sulphur buckwheat
A new bridge on the Pipeline Trail at junction with Elbow Fork
Yarrow and geraniums
Richardson's geranium
Large-leafed aven
Sticky geranium and friend
Stay left
They replace the old wooden bridge that had collapsed with this
Paintbrush
Blue elderberry
Cow-parsnip
Hollyhock
Twinberry honeysuckle
Geraniums
Thimbleberry
Stand of aspen
Dwarf sunflower
Bumblebee on some horsemint
Few flowered pea
Rocky Mountain dwarf sunflowers
Ditto
Lewis Flax and a spider
Mule-ears, with Parleys Ridge in the distance. If you have really good eyes you can make out Frary Peak beyond the ridge
Diamond clarkia
A hovering hummingbird. The shot didn't turn out, but I liked it anyway.
Gobblers Knob and Mount Raymond
Lupine
Western wallflower
Summit of Mount Olympus rises above the Millcreek Ridge
Skyrocket
Wildcat Ridge in the distance, from Mount Olympus to the west to Mount Raymond to the east.
Hawksbeard
Buckwheat to the summit
The yurt on Church Fork Peak with Grandeur Peak looming above
Mount Olympus and Grandeur Peak through a dead mountain mahogany
Hooker's onion through the gamble oak
Summit shot
Elk have been up top
Unnamed Peak 8490 and Millvue Peak beyond
Gobblers Knob to Olympus
The summit, with Parleys Canyon below
Sego lily
This horned lizard posed for me as I walked around him taking pictures
Common yarrow and friends
Wildflowers were just gorgeous on this hike
A look down Elbow Fork and upper Millcreek
Common sagebrush lizard
Wood's rose
More skyrocket
Unnamed Peak 8490 located to the east of Mount Aire
Back through the mule-ears and dwarf sunflowers
Looking down Elbow Fork with Gobblers Knob above
Caterpillar on the trail
Yellow salsify
Rocky Mountain ninebark
I stopped for a quick break at the junction of Elbow Fork and the Pipeline Trail and this squirrel got after me
The new bridge from a different angle
The hot Pipeline Trail on my way back to the Jeep
More hooker's onion
Some type of aster
Back at the dirty Jeep
The End.
Upper Millcreek Canyon is closed due to construction. They are widening the road in places and upgrading some trailheads, so I had to park at the Burch Hollow Trailhead and hike up the Pipeline Trail to Elbow Fork to pick up the Mount Aire Trailhead. Total roundtrip distance was just over ten miles.
Geraniums were the wildflower of the day as they were prolific from Elbow Fork to the slopes of Mount Aire, with Dwarf sunflowers and Mule-ears running a close second.
A proud mom and dad as Katie received her master's degree last week from the
University of Washington in Seattle.
Over view map of the day's hike
The Jeep has gotten a lot of action these last few weeks
At the Burch Hollow Trailhead
Reaching the Pipeline Trail
Goldeneye
View up Bowman Fork
The Pipeline Trail
Streambank wild hollyhock
Feverfew
The balsamroot flowers are no more
Looking west towards the mouth of Millcreek Canyon
Reaching the Burch Hollow Trail
Wild rose
Spreading dogbane
Grand collomia
Sulphur buckwheat
A new bridge on the Pipeline Trail at junction with Elbow Fork
Yarrow and geraniums
Richardson's geranium
Large-leafed aven
Sticky geranium and friend
Stay left
They replace the old wooden bridge that had collapsed with this
Paintbrush
Blue elderberry
Cow-parsnip
Hollyhock
Twinberry honeysuckle
Geraniums
Thimbleberry
Stand of aspen
Dwarf sunflower
Bumblebee on some horsemint
Few flowered pea
Rocky Mountain dwarf sunflowers
Ditto
Lewis Flax and a spider
Mule-ears, with Parleys Ridge in the distance. If you have really good eyes you can make out Frary Peak beyond the ridge
Diamond clarkia
A hovering hummingbird. The shot didn't turn out, but I liked it anyway.
Gobblers Knob and Mount Raymond
Lupine
Western wallflower
Summit of Mount Olympus rises above the Millcreek Ridge
Skyrocket
Wildcat Ridge in the distance, from Mount Olympus to the west to Mount Raymond to the east.
Hawksbeard
Buckwheat to the summit
The yurt on Church Fork Peak with Grandeur Peak looming above
Mount Olympus and Grandeur Peak through a dead mountain mahogany
Hooker's onion through the gamble oak
Summit shot
Elk have been up top
Unnamed Peak 8490 and Millvue Peak beyond
Gobblers Knob to Olympus
The summit, with Parleys Canyon below
Sego lily
This horned lizard posed for me as I walked around him taking pictures
Common yarrow and friends
Wildflowers were just gorgeous on this hike
A look down Elbow Fork and upper Millcreek
Common sagebrush lizard
Wood's rose
More skyrocket
Unnamed Peak 8490 located to the east of Mount Aire
Back through the mule-ears and dwarf sunflowers
Looking down Elbow Fork with Gobblers Knob above
Caterpillar on the trail
Yellow salsify
Rocky Mountain ninebark
I stopped for a quick break at the junction of Elbow Fork and the Pipeline Trail and this squirrel got after me
The new bridge from a different angle
The hot Pipeline Trail on my way back to the Jeep
More hooker's onion
Some type of aster
Back at the dirty Jeep
The End.
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