Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, tagged Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The “cab” on the peak.
There is very little information available about most of the lesser known western mountain peaks, and what is available is hard to come by. In my searches for information on Penrose I found practically nothing, but it did show up in one listing of peaks that had been used as fire [...]
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This old Lookout house is in the Lolo National Forest in western Montana’s Cabinet Mountains. It was built in 1930 and sits a quarter of a mile southeast of the summit of Bighole Peak on the cliff overlooking the “big hole” from which it got its name. It was abandoned in 1970 but still is [...]
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Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Baldy Mountain, Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The following photos were taken along the top half mile of the trail, where I moved much more slowly, not because the climb was all that difficult, but because the views used up all of my available attention.
The Bitterroot Range is at the horizon in the first three photos.
In this photo the small town of [...]
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Posted in Baldy Mountain roadless area, Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Baldy Mountain, Baldy Mountain roadless area, Cabinet Mountains, Cherry Peak roadless area, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Penrose Peak on July 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »
When I visited the remains of the old lookout atop Baldy Mountain on a hike today an interesting perspective came to mind.
I will continue to post a few more photos from Penrose Peak later, but thought these two photos might just fit here.
Last Monday I took this photo from beside the remains of the old [...]
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Posted in Baldy Mountain roadless area, Cabinet Mountains, Coeur d'Alene Mountains, Hiking, Montana, Nature, North Siegel - North Cutoff Roadless area, Outdoors, Patrick's Knob roadless area, Photography, Photos, Pictures, South Siegel - South Cutoff Roadless Area, tagged South Siegel - South Cutoff Roadless Area, Baldy Mountain roadless area, Patrick's Knob - North Cutoff roadless area, North Siegel roadless area on June 29, 2008 | 14 Comments »
This will be the last post in this series: after all, how much can be said about a three mile trail?
The Clark Fork of the Columbia River flows in a northwesterly direction for about three hundred miles from its source in the Deerlodge National Forest at the Continental Divide near the town of Butte Montana [...]
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If I were the one to name this flower, that’s the name I’d choose. So far I’ve looked everywhere I can think of and can’t come up with in ID for it.
(Photographed along the lower end of the Munson Creek trail in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana, inside the TeePee - Spring Creek roadless [...]
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Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Wild Red Clover, Wild rose on June 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Wild rose bud
Wild rose blossom - mature
Red Clover
Wild rose blossom - early stage
(Photographed along the Spring Creek trail in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana.)
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Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged (lonicera ciliosa), (sedum), Orange Honeysuckle, Stonecrop on June 25, 2008 | 13 Comments »
The Honeysuckle is now blooming in the woods and it was surprising today to see Stonecrop, usually a blossom of late summer. Between the two though, they really brighten things up!
Orange Honeysuckle, lonicera ciliosa
Stonecrop sedum
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Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Mountain Lady's slipper, (Cypripedium montanum) on June 22, 2008 | 18 Comments »
This member of the Orchid family is always a real treat to discover in the back country. It is near extinction in many areas and rare in others. Acting on a tip from a friend, I made a short trip into the Weeksville Creek area in the Cabinet Mountains today and found several dozen of [...]
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Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Environment, Flowers, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Teepee-Spring Creek roadless area, Wildflowers, tagged Indian paintbrush, Calypso orchid, (Mitella stauropetala), Piper flowers, Smallflower mitrewort, Blue Clematis, Western blue virginsbower, (Clematis occidentalis), Blue violet, Wild currants, Red trillium, Lupines, Western meadow-rue, (Thalictrum occidentale) on June 10, 2008 | 28 Comments »
***Note: I’ll likely be off the air for a time while I convert my stuff over to a new iMac, which also involves trying to forget over 20 years of the Microsoft way of operating. Please don’t think I’m ignoring anyone…. pray for me!***
I have posted photos of a few of the flowers that are [...]
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