Dog Lake

Our last hike was Dog Lake up Millcreek Canyon.  I'm not going to gush and tell how incredibly beautiful it was because I really don't want it get any more popular than it already is.

Columbine, Aquilegia spp.

Thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus

Monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus

Baneberry, Actaea rubra

Stickweed or False forget-me-not, Hackelia floribunda

Red elderberry, Sambucus racemosa

Sticky geranium,  Geranium viscosissimum

 

This is a pale specimen of the usually pink sticky geranium.  The pure white geranium known as Richardson's geranium doesn't have the pink veins.

Leafy Jacob's ladder, Polemonium foliosissimum

Mountain hollyhock, Iliamna rivularis

Silvery lupine, Lupinus argenteus

Coralroot, Corallorhiza spp.

Paintbrush, Castilleja spp.

View near the top

Hikers

Dog Lake

Sticky geranium, Geranium viscosissimum and 

Wastch penstemon,  Penstemon cyananthus