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Finally, we had a day with no rain: that called for a leisurely stroll up towards the Cherry Peak area. The trail there is on what was an old road from the trail head and so it’s quite wide for a trail and has a rather regular incline to it making it pretty easy hiking [...]

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Finally, Cherry Peak

Yesterday a short drive in the Jeep enabled me to find out that the road to one of my favorite trailheads is now passable, and so today I had to see how far up the trail itself I could go before being stopped by the snow. As it turned out, about 3 miles, but far [...]

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A March visit to Munson Creek

Yesterday the weather cleared a bit and Munson Creek seemed to call to me. USFS trail 372 was clear for about two miles up into the TeePee - Spring Creek roadless area before the ice on the trail became too hazardous for hiking. (It’s a very narrow trail along a steep mountainside.)
Not far from [...]

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A favorite winter place

There’s a place close by on the river that’s a favorite place.
To the east you can see the Deemer Peak area like this:

or this:

and to the west, the peaks of the Cherry Peak roadless area.

In winter, I can only admire the peaks from below: in summer, after a few hours of hard work, I can [...]

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Thinking of June

Mid winter is what memory and photographs are for. I can close my eyes and feel the cool breeze that was blowing across the top of the peak when I took this photo on June 21, 2007.

(Photo of the peaks of the Cherry Peak roadless area, taken from the top of Sunset Peak, just above [...]

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Cherry Peak winter

During today’s ramblings around at the bottom end of Munson Creek I took these photos looking into the north slope of the Cherry Peak roadless area in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains of western Montana.
They were taken from about a mile away, which was as close as I could get today.

 

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October paintbrush

Before I forget again, here are a couple of photos of some Indian paintbrush that I noticed along a trail at a high elevation on the first of October. They look much different than they do in the summer. I would hate to leave them out.

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A few more autumn leaves

The drops on the leaves came from snow that had melted just minutes before.

A couple of miles up the trail (and a thousand feet higher), this mullein had a pretty coating of frost,

and this fungus peeked out from under a blanket of fresh snow.

(These are photos of a few of the small treasures along [...]

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On the edge of winter

Photographed in the Cherry Peak roadless area in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains of western Montana on October 4, 2007.

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Early snow on the Coeur d’Alenes

This area ( the Cherry Peak roadless area) would be preserved for those who will come after us by the passage of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, H.R. 1975, which is now in the House of Representatives.

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