Who wants to hear about Oregon?? Not as many of my tens of readers as want to hear about Mineral King.
While I was on the road, Trail Guy was in Mineral King. (Are you surprised? Then you might be new here. . . welcome!) You may recognize these photos as coming from his camera, because it usually has a dark spot in the sky.
First, he saw a Western Tanager, a yearly sighting. Blurry, so I’ve made this photo small.
Then he went to White Chief.
This is Crystal Creek from across the valley.
This juniper is everybody’s favorite tree.
Here is White Chief, sometimes described as a canyon, sometimes as a valley, sometimes as a dry lake.
The flat top peak is White Chief Peak.
Trail Guy calls this “Walden Pond”. It is NOT White Chief Lake. That’s up a steep steep steep slope below White Chief Peak.
Back in the valley (the Mineral King Valley), this rock outcropping continues to impersonate a mountain ridge which we call Empire. From this angle, it appears to be the top, but it isn’t.
Trail Guy also went to Timber Gap. This is the classic view from the trail. White Chief Peak is visible, identifiable by its squared off top.
Five-spot on the left, phlox on the right.
Shooting star. Jeffrey Shooting Star. Don’t forget about Jeffrey, whoever he was.
When he got home to Three Rivers, he found this brand new, recently born set of twins, right in our yard.
Great. Now we’ll never get rid of these voracious landscape-destroying creatures.
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Awww, the little twins are so adorable! I know, they are hard on yards and gardens. Deer ate my tulips this year, and they usually never touch them. I was sad!
Okay, that would REALLY tick me off! I can’t grow tulips here, but if I lived where I could, I would be guarding them like a sentry.
It was always a rare treat to spot a Western Tanager at the cabin. They are so colorful!
I have a few photos of that iconic “from the Timber Gap Trail” angle. I’m glad to see there is so much snow still left on the peaks and in the upper valleys!
Awe cute fawns (even if they do grow up to be “voracious landscape-destroying creatures.” A girl’s gotta eat, you know?
Sharon, the first time I saw a Western Tanager, I was certain that someone’s pet had escaped!
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