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Flower, Yellow, Round Top Lake, Sierra Nevada
Near Round Top Lake
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Carson Pass Management Unit, El Dorado National Forest.
9360 Feet.
June 8, 2009
The flowers were just beginning to burst out of their pods.
This flower was very early. The majority of the terrain was still covered with Spring snows. Here's a picture of the snowcover from that June 2009 trip:
Pussypaws, Flowers, Pink, High Sierra
Pussypaw, flower, High Sierra, hiking Emigrant Wilderness, backpacking Stanislaus National Forest. North side of Bond Pass.
Date: July 27, 2010
Elevation: 8800 feet
Trail Guide: Not Constructed
Butterfly, Burnt Orange, and Buckwheat, High Sierra, Emigrant Wilderness
Butterfly, Burnt Orange, and Buckwheat, High Sierra, Emigrant Wilderness, Stanislaus National Forest. Sighted approaching Bond Pass to enter Yosemite from the High Emigrant Basin.
Date: July 27, 2009.
Elevation; 8400 feet.
Trail Guide: Not Completed...yet
Flower, High Sierra Nevada, Purple
Purple High Sierra Flower, Sonora Peak, Carson Iceberg Wilderness, Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest.
September 27 2009.
Elevation: 10,200 feet
Trail Guide: Sonora Peak Flowers
Sierra Flower, Yellow, Sierra Arnica
Sierra Flower, Yellow, Sierra Arnica? Hiking the PCT through Murray Canyon, July 2009. 8800 feet.
Trail Guide: Tyron Peak to Murray Canyon
Sierra Flower, Sierra Columbine, Hummingbird, Stanislaus National Forest, Emigrant Wilderness
Sierra Flower, Sierra Columbine (?), Hummingbird, Stanislaus National Forest, Just Northwest of the Emigrant Wilderness. It's a Columbine...but what type I'm not sure.
Location
High Sierra Flower: Purple, Waxy Checkerbloom
High Sierra Flower: Purple, Waxy Checkerbloom (?), Carson Iceberg Wilderness, Tahoe to Yosemite Trail.
Backpacking just North of Spicer Meadow Reservoir Lake on the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail.
High Sierra Flower, Pink, Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
High Sierra Flower, Pink, Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
Gardiner Meadow near Highland Lakes,
Heading from the Tahoe to Yosemite Trail up to the Pacific Crest Trail via Highland Creek & Lakes.
I have not completed this section of the trail guide yet, but the following guide page is close to Gardiner Meadow, and the map shows the location.
Yellow, High Sierra Flower, Bolander's dandelion?
High Sierra Flower, Yellow, Bolander's dandelion?
Though the form of the petals is not round as most dandelions are, the serrated ends of the petals is very much dandelion-like.
I'm not sure. This Yellow flower also looks a bit like Stickey Arnica...
Location
Sierra Flower: Crimson Columbine, Hiking Carson Iceberg Wilderness
Sierra Flower: Crimson Columbine, hiking Carson Iceberg Wilderness
Location: High up the headwaters bowl of the East Fork of the Carson River.
Carson Iceberg Wilderness in the Toiyabe National Forest. Pacific Crest Trail.
Elevation: 9200 feet.
