Grasshopper Meadow, Blair Lake Trail & Mt June.

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Grasshopper Meadow, Blair Lake Trail & Mt June.

Post by kaltbluter » July 4th, 2015, 9:40 pm

7-03-2015

Grasshopper Meadow:
-Still lots of flowers left.
-Butterflies. Everywhere.
-No mosquitoes.
-Lots and lots of bees.
-One meadow had so many grasshoppers jumping away that it sounded like frying bacon.
-Constant birdsong background music.

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The trail is slightly overgrown in a couple spots.
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This old watering trough has seen better days but the spring that feeds it is still pouring water on the rotting boards.
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Battered but not broken.
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I don't think I've even seen so many Tiger Lillies in one place before.
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Re: Grasshopper Meadow, Blair Lake Trail & Mt June.

Post by kaltbluter » July 4th, 2015, 9:41 pm

Blair Lake Trail:
-Still some flowers in the lower meadow.
-Not many flowers in the forest.
-Huckleberries are getting close.
-Big Bloomin Beargrass Bonanza is over.
-Kind of a cool rocky area right before the meadow.

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Re: Grasshopper Meadow, Blair Lake Trail & Mt June.

Post by kaltbluter » July 4th, 2015, 9:43 pm

Mount June:
-Hardly any flowers left.
-Slightly annoying mosquitoes in the forest, none on summit.

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Some quality of this photo makes me feel like I'm looking at a miniature landscape.
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Re: Grasshopper Meadow, Blair Lake Trail & Mt June.

Post by Peder » July 4th, 2015, 10:42 pm

These are just fantastic pictures; thank you for sharing! :D
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Post by greenjello85 » July 5th, 2015, 4:18 pm

These are some of the best trip report photos I've ever seen. They are stunning without appearing overly manipulated. The hummingbird in flight is incredible!

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Post by justpeachy » July 5th, 2015, 5:54 pm

Nice! You got some fabulous butterfly shots! :D

Did you do all this in one day?

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Post by kaltbluter » July 5th, 2015, 8:25 pm

greenjello85 wrote:These are some of the best trip report photos I've ever seen. They are stunning without appearing overly manipulated. The hummingbird in flight is incredible!
Thanks, the only picture I really messed with was the back of the tiger lily. I liked the way it looked with the details enhanced a ridiculous amount.

That humming bird came by while I was recording the bird songs. There was only time for two quick pictures before it was gone again. I was glad one of them turned out.

The last few days I've noticed a humming bird stopping by my back yard each night around 6 or 7. Tonight I decided to make myself a cold drink and sit back there with a camera and a book to read. I only had to wait about thirty minutes before he showed up.

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justpeachy wrote:Nice! You got some fabulous butterfly shots! :D

Did you do all this in one day?
Two days, but they could all easily be done in one day. Heck, throw in Tire Mountain too. It's on the way.

I went up Mount June Friday night thinking that I could get some cool shots of the full moon rising through the smoke from the bunker hill fire near Diamond Peak.

I did Grasshopper and Blair on Saturday morning. They are very close together if you're a crow but about thirty miles of forest roads lie between them for us ground dwellers.

The moon rise started out okay:
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I was expecting it to show though better than this:
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And then it turned into this and I wasn't all that interested in where things were going.
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And it didn't help that wind was getting a bit viscous and it was rattling my tripod all over the place.

I did get to see a bunch of creepy 3-4 inch millipedes on the trail on my way out.
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After I got to lower elevation there wasn't any wind and I stopped to take a photo of the Venus/Jupiter thing. I didn't even notice Jupiter's moons until I looked the the pictures on the computer.
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While I was at it I pointed the camera at the Moon too.
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Re: Grasshopper Meadow, Blair Lake Trail & Mt June.

Post by miah66 » July 6th, 2015, 12:29 pm

WOWOWOWOOWOW

:shock: :D :mrgreen:
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