Where I spent my childhood!
It is not my pictures but a friend's. I haven't seen him for 40+ years till he suddenly sent me an email with this link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103312241303948544115/OsloStmarkOgStmarkaNa...
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It is not my pictures but a friend's. I haven't seen him for 40+ years till he suddenly sent me an email with this link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103312241303948544115/OsloStmarkOgStmarkaNa...
We took a late season hike up to Helen Lake in northern Banff on August 27th. I'll show some of the highlights (to me, that is ;D) in this thread, but a more thorough trip journal can be seen at this link:
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=162.0
The 165 acres of Schaefer Prairie is in south central Minnesota, and was bought by the Nature Conservancy in 1967 to preserve its natural resources. Although it was mowed for hay yearly in the first half of the century, it has never been plowed. It contains both wet and mesic habitat, making it a gem of diversity. I visited on 15 August, although this is a prairie with great treasures throughout the season. This area has been heavily drought stricken, as evidenced by the unusually low water table.
Arrived back in New Zealand last week after escaping our winter and enjoying a summer in the States . Actually , when I arrived in Oregon in early June it was hard to tell the difference as I was greeted by cool , cloudy and often rainy days . My first foray into the Siskiyous was almost entirely in the rain but the sun came out a month later for my second visit .
My trusty camera had a meltdown on day 1 . I hadn't budgeted on replacing a camera so I bought the best Walmart had to offer . I could not afford to go to a real camera shop .
A hike up Dix Mountain in the Adirondacks (4840 feet and sixth highest in region) from Route 73 is about 14 miles round trip. It takes a puttering 50 year old rock gardener on a mission about eight hours to complete and still see lots of good plants. On the way up: Gentiana andrewsii(?) in an alder swamp and Eupatorium sp. in a marsh.
As promised, here are a few photos of our recent hikes (August 13th and 16th) to Sparrowhawk Tarns in Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park.
Here's a video of some of our explorations last week. It starts with a hike up Burroughs Mountain and concludes with thousands of Erythronium montanum waving in the breeze.
This 40 km long valley once had 10 farms! No there are none although some of the houses still are used as cabins and lodges. The valley is from old the shortest road from east to west Norway and used in thousands of years. Even livestock was brought on their own legs down the valley - before 1930 though they had to take another route at the ridges due to the vertical cliffs with only ladders of rope and wood for people. Highest up (1200m) it is a rather flat valley but farther down it is formed by ice and running water to a canyon.