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It is my second hike in a row where it was sunny and the temperature was in the high comfortable. I was up on this hike about three weeks ago, but the flowers were just starting to come out.  I returned to see them and succeeded admirably.

 

There was a rattlesnake across my path, but no mosquitoes.  The snake and I worked out an agreement where by he would disappear into the grass and I wouldn’t following trying to take pictures.  I think it worked out to the benefit of us both.

 

I stopped counting the variety of flowers at about forty, but there were plenty more if you include the flowering bushes.  This is a great hike because of the wide range of terrain in a short hike.  There are great grass fields,

Cool stands of cottonwoods?

peaceful meadows in the forest

great views of the Stuart Range

and of course, all of those great flowers.

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It was a great early season hike which I highly recommend if you don’t mind sharing your lunch with a bugling elk.