Mount Townsend — Thursday, Jul. 31, 2003

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

Wildflower Alert! Flowers blanket the trail from the start of the avalanche chutes, sometimes waist-high. Identified 64 different varieties and know we missed some. Mixed masses on the lower hillsides, large clumps of bluebells, columbine, paintbrush, nodding onion, and many more as you get higher. Piper's Bellflower still opening up at the saddle where the trail to Silver Lake starts, so it's not too late to enjoy this visual feast.