Cheam sunrise
PS Mt Cheam is the one at the far left :-)
Showing posts with label Chilliwack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chilliwack. Show all posts
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Day 158: Cheam sunrise
Another sunrise photo but this time one taken of a view I've wanted to capture for ages: the sun rising over the Cheam Range of mountains. This was an opportunistic photo as I pulled off Highway 1 just before we reached Chilliwack on our way to Yoho National Park. I drove a few hundred metres along the road and stopped next to a field full of ripening crops. A grain silo (or similar) was silhouetted against the morning light, adding a nice level of rural goodness to balance the jagged mountains. I'm not sure what it is about Mt Cheam and its fellow summits, but it has a hold on me I can't explain. Maybe it's because it's just such a picturesque mountain, maybe it's the notoriety of the road to its trailhead. Dunno, but I love taking photos of this mountain.
Cheam sunrise
PS Mt Cheam is the one at the far left :-)
Cheam sunrise
PS Mt Cheam is the one at the far left :-)
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Day 96: Glacier lilies!
Yup - you read that right :-) It's still June and we've seen our first glacier lilies of the year. And I hope that they won't be the last :-) Much like my search for white fawn lilies, I can get a little excited about finding glacier lilies. It's become a bit of a standing joke among our hiking friends, dating back to 2007 when we saw our first glacier lilies along the trail to Mt Frosty.
In practice I get excited about seeing a whole range of flowers when they first bloom: western anemone, alpine marsh marigold, paintbrush, bleeding heart, queen's cup, arnica, oregon grape, bunchberry, coralroot, trillium, columbine, stonecrop, gentian, monkeyflower... You get the picture :-) In fact, one of the amazing discoveries of today's hike was the number of trillium blooming on the upper reaches of the trail. That was a surprise, as I regard them as low-level spring flowers. Even more amazing was that they were much smaller than the lower-elevation versions, often barely 8 inches high, and with leaves only a couple of inches long (compared with 6-8 inch leaves in the valley bottom). And then there were the views... All in all a pretty good day out.
Glacier lilies
In practice I get excited about seeing a whole range of flowers when they first bloom: western anemone, alpine marsh marigold, paintbrush, bleeding heart, queen's cup, arnica, oregon grape, bunchberry, coralroot, trillium, columbine, stonecrop, gentian, monkeyflower... You get the picture :-) In fact, one of the amazing discoveries of today's hike was the number of trillium blooming on the upper reaches of the trail. That was a surprise, as I regard them as low-level spring flowers. Even more amazing was that they were much smaller than the lower-elevation versions, often barely 8 inches high, and with leaves only a couple of inches long (compared with 6-8 inch leaves in the valley bottom). And then there were the views... All in all a pretty good day out.
Glacier lilies
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