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posted: July 31st, 2020 |
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This page continues July 17th at 2:03 PM, hiking around on the mountains of the Thompson Pass Area. The 17th continues through the end of Row 7, and then July 18th begins in Row 8 - a final early morning hike in the Thompson Pass Area and then driving all the way to Hatcher Pass, which is north of Palmer, Alaska. Then we did a short hike around that area before evening set in. In Row 16 we jump to July 19th and the first part of a rather long hike up the Craigie Creek Trail. This page ends at 9:25 AM on the 19th and therefore the 19th continues on Page 5 at 9:39 AM. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| July 17th Continues from Page 3 (at 2:03 PM) |
We are still looking at our photos of July 17th, another hike in the mountains of Thompson Pass. The first two shots in this row show White Marsh Marigold (Caltha leptosepala) and the third photo shows a beautiful patch of White Bog Orchid (Platanthera dilatata). We found an abundance of this orchid and the air was heavy with the wonderful orchid scent - it was amazing.
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Here are two more photos which show the White Bog Orchid (Platanthera dilatata) and then a shot of the Woolly Geranium (Geranium erianthum) .
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The first photo in this row shows another photo of the Alaska Violet (Viola langsdorffii), the second photo shows Fireleaf Leptarrhena and White Bog Orchid (Leptarrhena pyrolifolia and Platanthera dilatata), and the third photo shows Nootka Lupine and Aleutian Mountainheath (Lupinus nootkatensis and Phyllodoce aleutica).
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These three photos all show Nootka Lupine and Aleutian Mountainheath (Lupinus nootkatensis and Phyllodoce aleutica). The third shot is really amazing - somehow it doesn't even look real or natural, but it is, nothing has been changed from the original photo.
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The first shot in this row shows another example of Aleutian Mountainheath (Phyllodoce aleutica). The second and third photos show Worthington Glacier. This is our third part-of-a-day in this area and we are finally getting around to actually making a hike up to the glacier, at least as far as we feel comfortable in going.
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The first shot shows Daniel hiking up towards the glacier. The second shot shows how the rock walls of the canyon have been smoothed after however many hundreds or thousands of years the glacier has been grinding away at them before it receded.
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The first photo shows Daniel hiking towards the glacier again. He didn't go much farther than this, after a rock came tumbling down from the top edge of the glacier and landed not 100 yards away. The second photo shows the pond at the bottom of the glacier.
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Now it's the 18th of July, another new day. Our secret camping spot with our Topper Motel was only a couple of miles from the Worthington Glacier State Recreation Site, so we went there each morning to use the public restrooms. We were the only car in the parking lot, so we also cooked and ate our breakfast at the picnic table there. Starting with the second photo in this row, we are back up at Thompson Pass and doing one final hike in the morning before leaving - we have a long drive ahead of us today.
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Our final morning hike while at Thompson Pass.
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Here are three more photos taken while we were doing our final morning hike before leaving Thompson Pass.
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The first and second shots in this row are the final two from the Thompson Pass area. Note that the first photo in this row shows the two glaciers which were shown in the two previous photos. The third photo shows the Matanuska Glacier, taken from the Glenn Highway as we approached Palmer, Alaska.
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Here are three more shots of the Matanuska Glacier, taken from the Glenn Highway as we approached Palmer.
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The first shot in this row is the final shot which shows Matanuska Glacier. Starting with the second photo we are obviously at Hatcher Pass, about 20 miles north of Palmer along a minor road.
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Here is another photo looking back towards the Hatcher Pass parking lot and then another shot of the Pixie Eye Primrose (Primula cuneifolia ssp. saxifragifolia) - we only found a very few here. In the third shot, can you believe how green everything is?
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The first photo in this row shows another orchid, this one is the Northern Green Orchid (Platanthera hyperborea). The second and third photos show Green False Hellebore (Veratrum viride var. eschscholzianum). And that ends July 18th.
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| End July 18th, Begin July 19th |
Now it's July 19th and we are going to drive about 5 or 6 miles to the Craigie Creek Trailhead and hike up there as far as we can go by about noon, and then we'll turn around and head back to the rig.The first shot here was taken from close to the Hatcher Pass Summit Lake looking down into the valley to the north. The second image is a 2-shot panorama taken down into the same valley, but looking more towards the north. The third shot shows another specimen of Green False Hellebore (Veratrum viride var. eschscholzianum). |
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Here are three scenic images. The first and third are both 2-shot panoramic images. Such beautiful country here.
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Now we are down in the valley - the area you can see in the third photo in the previous row. We have stopped to check the scenery in this area.
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Now we have arrived at the Craigie Creek Trail and are hiking up the valley. The first shot in this row shows a Whorled Lousewort (Pedicularis verticillata) and the second and third shots show an attractive Snowline Wintergreen (Pyrola minor) plant.
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Here are two more shots of the Snowline Wintergreen (Pyrola minor) and then a scenery shot.
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Here are two additional shots of Green False Hellebore (Veratrum viride var. eschscholzianum) and then a shot of a beautiful White Bog Orchid (Platanthera dilatata).
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The first shot here is a scenery shot, taken while looking up towards the head of Craigie Creek. The second and third shots show examples of Star Gentian (Swertia perennis), another one of the flowers which we were specifically searching for on this vacation.
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Here are three shots of the only plant we saw of the Albino Form of Woolly Geranium (Geranium erianthum).
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Here are three more shots of the Star Gentian (Swertia perennis).
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