We picked up S, M, and H, for a hike from the Glen Alps parking lot. We started at the steps to Flattop, but but took the upper trail towards Powerline Pass.
We stopped to play in the stunted forest. We're close to tree line here and the trees are kid sized. 
The kids decided on this warm day, they needed to rearrange the rocks in the creek under the bridge
Someone stole my camera while I was snoozing.
M has a book on Alaska wildflowers and was excited to find the monkshood blooming everywhere she looked. But she told me the color was wrong in the book. It was blue, but these were more purple.
S decided to give H a piggy back ride.
They didn't get far.
Here we're getting back to the trail after the girls played in the tall grasses.
We had to make another detour off the trail. This time to leave enough room for the moose and her calf. But she was taking the trail traffic in stride - and there was a lot of hikers and their dogs.
Finally back to the parking lot. As you can see it was full. At five bucks a car (free for those of us who buy annual day passes to the state park) it probably was a good idea just to maintain the parking lot and the trail heads. I wonder how many don't pay, and of that group, how many get fined, and how much of that is collected.
Anyway, it was a great day and the girls did a lot of walking and no complaining.
Great pix again wow!! M is the same with the flowers as big china is with birds they know more about the birds than I do.
ReplyDeleteBut you know more about the bees.
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ReplyDeleteI presume form the pic of you napping in the long grass you have no problem with sheep/deer ticks in the long grass and there nasty Lyme disease as we have here?
Hey, this is paradise, no ticks allowed. The mosquitoes are only here as bird food in the summer.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I noticed that the fireweed picture with the bee that was similar to yours was in that article on beekeeping in Alaska.