August 2

Box Elder

Walking up Box Elder in search of readjustment, goats and wildflowers.

Greeted by a doe at the trailhead.

trailhead-doe

The lower trail has been pounded by horses and it's kinda boring till the meadow

colopine

Columbine and lupine reside on the shady north face.

Nettleleaf horsemint

nettleleaf

little sunflowers

sunmint

and jacob ladder are prolific

lone-chipman

wrapping the west face.

japine

Snowfield on Timp lingers

snowfield

for the turns all year crowd(at least for August).

ma-kid

Goat viewing is difficult. Skittish as hell. Most of the stickseed...

stickseed

is in the socks.

A monument flower

monument

on the shoulder. Stonecrops of several

stonecrop

varieties?

lanceleaf

on the upper ridges.

I had to be cautious because aliens lurk

alien

in the penstemons.

daisy

A showy dasy anna

utah-county

Utah county on the way back down.

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