Sixteen hikers enjoyed an idyllic day on Grizzly Peak, hiking among Douglas fir and grand fir. Most hiked the 5.5-mile lollypop loop (elevation gain 750’), a couple followed the southward side out and back for 4.8 miles (closer to 5 by taking a side trail in and out to the Ashland viewpoint. Those taking the loop saw the upper Rogue mountains from the corn lily meadow. A log was across the trail near the corn lilies. A green-tailed towhee called along with a pileated woodpecker and a distant chat.
Snowbush ceanothus was in full bloom attracting many pollinators. Monkeyflowers were along the wet, exposed rocks. All of us met for lunch at the Rock Viewpoint overlooking Ashland, Mt. Ashland, Emigrant Lake, Pilot Rock, and Mt. Shasta, the latter through haze and light clouds.
Wildflowers are prolific at this time of year. Among those noted were trilliums, yellow violets, Fendler’s waterleaf, columbine, larkspur, Jessica’s stickweed, striped coralroot, calypso orchid, Siskiyou onion, scabland fleabane, lilies, and paintbrush. The tower delphiniums are growing and will flower in several weeks. Birds chirped like it was ‘party time’, undisturbed by our equally cheerful hikers.
It was a lovely hike with us appreciating our good fortune in having this mountain ‘at our doorstep’.
Elisabeth and Kay
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Blue larkspur
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Fendler's waterleaf
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Fernleaf Lomatium
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Jessica stickweed
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Log across trail near corn lily meadow
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Polemonium
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Red Baneberry
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Scablands fleabane
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