From an email by Jocie to the Botany Group on September 4. Click a photo to enlarge it.
Reflecting back over the summer (as one does, come Labour Day), one of our highlights was a backpack up Mount Albert Edward on August 16-18. We did the usual thing, camping at Circlet Lake and day hiking from there, followed by a second night at Circlet. There are those who hike or trail-run to the summit as a day trip, but it doesn’t look like much fun!
Many lovely subalpine plants, and some higher-elevation alpine plants on the rocky ridge to Albert Edward that I don’t get to see too often. Here are some plants and views, and a few shots of my teenage kids en route. We reached the summit on my son’s 15th birthday!
- Backpackers ready!
- Bird’s beak lousewort (Pedicularis ornithorhynchos)
- Castle Crag view
- Subalpine daisy (Erigeron glacialis) and a wasp lookalike insect, a hoverfly maybe?
- Davidson’s penstemon (Penstemon davidsonii)
- Looking to Albert Edward and Mount Regan
- Moss campion (Silene acaulis)
- Spotted saxifrage (Saxifraga bronchialis)
- Tolmie’s saxifrage (Micranthes tolmiei)
- A rest in the snow
