Started this hike at 11:45 am, and intentionally slowed it down hoping for some sun, but there wasn’t any sun almost all day except after 4 pm. Due to this, could not see the peaks clearly but the wildflowers were amazing. I used AllTrails navigation for spray park trail to mount pleasant and the last bit took a digression from the main trail towards mount pleasant climb, did not do this climb as it was cloudy but saw three white mountain goats on top.
Mosquitoes bothered us only when we paused for a while, we wore full clothes and sprayed bug spray all over our clothes but they got smart and started biting me over my head on the scalp. Then I wore hat haha.
Camped the night there in mowich lake campground, and it was a cold night (low 30s).
Avalanche lilies have almost withered and only a few spots had them in abundance, but a fresh wave of paintbrush is about to start and lupines would probably take a week or more to be in full bloom. For more trail pictures, follow me on insta “withnamd”.
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