Stacker Butte

[drm]

Another place to get a great bloom now. In the past my memory is that it was best below the trailhead - not so this year. Maybe a super bloom for this area. I started at the crack of dawn (9:30am) to get the right amount of warm. It was mid 60s and mine was the only car at the trailhead, which was a surprise. The very steep road is in good shape and I assume most cars could make it. The profuse balsamroot lower down gave way to barestem desert parsley and others above above.

I looked this up - dagger pod?

Mt Adams and - what on earth is that on the left? Can that be natural?

A nice view down into the middle section of Swale Canyon

And the super bloom [sic] below with Hood on the throne

[adamschneider]

It might be a good year for flowers, but a "superbloom" is a phenomenon specific to deserts, where rain causes dormant seeds to sprout and you get a few years of blooms all at once.

(You could MAYBE use "superbloom" to describe out-of-the-ordinary explosions of beargrass or other mysteriously periodic plants, but the balsamroot in the Gorge doesn't qualify.)

[drm]

"Better than average bloom" doesn't flow the same way.

[nate]

Looks super to me.

[Davey]

What on earth! is very likely the vast canola bloom of the Amery farm.

[adamschneider]

What on earth! is very likely the vast canola bloom of the Amery farm.

Yup, it's on both sides of Hartland Road between Centerville Highway and High Prairie Road.