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I wanted to explore a rock outcrop I'd noticed on an aerial view of this peak.   Climbing up, I noticed that the woods looked like a good environment for yellow lady's slippers, but I didn't see any.   I did come across a nice group of the pink species, though.   Arriving at the summit "rock outcrop", I found that I had been fooled, and it was actually a glade.   I had thought it didn't look quite right on the aerial view!   Coming down the mountain by a different route, I did come across some yellow lady's slippers!

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Cow Wheat   (Melampyrum lineare)


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Old school bus and trailer
I always say, you never know what you'll come across in the woods.   Someone
must have used this bus for a "mobile home" before the Forest Service owned
the land.   Both vehicles are missing their undercarriages and axles/wheels.



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The bus door was still locked with a padlock!


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The old safety crossing arm is still attached to the bus.


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Solomon's Plume   (Maianthemum racemosum)


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Part of the Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) colony.


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A nice pair of Pink Lady's Slippers.


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Another pair of Pink Lady's Slippers, posing...


Glade
Mountain-top glade


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Mountain-top glade


Strawberry
Wild Strawberry   (Fragaria sp.)


Packera
Ragwort   (Packera sp.)


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I was surprised to see Trillium grandiflorum in such fresh condition.
Granted, the elevation here was just shy of 5000 feet.



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Small Yellow Lady's Slippers (Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum)
Descending by a different route, I encountered what I'd hoped to find here...



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This cute plant was one of the smallest of this species that I've seen.


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Another Yellow Lady's Slipper


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At 4 foot diameter, this is one of the few trees I've seen old enough to have been
an "Indian direction tree", although I doubt that was the case with this tree.




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