The beautiful flowers found on the trail to Enchanted Valley helped to alleviate the fatigue that invariably accompanies carrying a 40 pound pack uphill for 13 miles.
These beautiful Mountain Daisies
were found from the lowest elevation to the highest.
Huge bushes full of Tilling’s Monkeyflower
crowded river gravel at our first Campground and at several places where we stopped beside the river to rest.
Several varieties of wild roses
were also found at our campground and along the trail.
I loved this striking white flower that we saw several times in dark shade, making it difficult to get as sharp of image as I’d like to get.
Though I found several similar flowers in Mountain Flowers of the Cascades and Olympics, I couldn’t really pin it down exactly.
Luckily, I got several chances to capture this picture of a Columbine,
another favorite that I haven’t seen much since I moved away from the Columbia Gorge area.