Tuesday, July 21, 2009

up hill

You maybe know i love to be above the tree line.
Well i am almost getting there. Yesterday, i climbed the mountain in the back here, which comes close to the treeline but not quite.These photos here are not in the right order, well i actually don't know a right order, so let's just leave it.
It's that Gentianella again, It's what's blooming now abundantly with Yarrow and goldenrod. And all the other flowers already in seed. I took the picture today, looking down on them for at least an hour.

I went biking with Alexander! what a treat.(hmmm being a teenager, i don't get to spend much time with him) We pushed the bikes up the Stony creek trail. Well as you push a bike up 45 degree trails, you look at the ground a lot.









No this is not the trail we rode, today the trail clay, sandy, gravelly and plate size boulders (imagine the downhill part)
But this is the ribs of Annie Ned granite Batholite on my mountain yesterday, great for walking on, the gradient as steep as can be for walking, instead of climbing.

Ah, and yesterday i went to pick raspberries
again. With Janet! Who i met on blog :). Wonderful!
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5 comments:

  1. RachelWJuly 23, 2009 at 7:07 PM

    I love the alpine, too. It's such a treat hiking up through bush and insects, breaking through the treeline into the low, sweet high-mountain wind-swept rock and vegetation. It feels like finding a secret place, so high above everything.

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  2. L.July 23, 2009 at 10:03 PM

    Beautiful. I love the photos. Where you live is so breath-taking!

    And yummy raspberries -- we have had lots and lots of black raspberries in our yard because I never weeded last year :) They are delicious!

    btw, I have a new blog address where I will be posting

    http://inanutshelloutoforder.blogspot.com/

    just wanted you to know...same old me -- just a fresh start of sorts :)

    love to you and your wilderness

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  3. ariaJuly 24, 2009 at 4:37 AM

    that's FUN, to go biking with Alexander!! Sounds good!

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  4. jozienJuly 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM

    Thanks girls!!!
    Rachel, you describe it beautifully!
    We live too far South, really.
    How would it be to actually live up North?
    to live forever
    in the low
    sweet high
    wind-swept
    rock
    secretly
    high above everything
    I think i would
    come apart
    float
    unable to descend
    in high speed
    forgetting everything
    but the rocks, sand, clay
    in front of my front tire.

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  5. RichardJuly 28, 2009 at 9:35 PM

    Beautiful - what is more amazing is that I don't know how I got your blog. Too much technology for me. It was just there.

    So we will live vicariously!

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