Parking lot was beyond full. I had to leave the car at least a half mile down the road. Mosquitoes were annoying until I put on some repellant. A quick and easy 3 miles (doh 3.5 miles for me) up to Spray Park. Lots of hikers. The meadows were ok. Lupine is not so great this year. Magenta paintbrush and bitsort still going strong. Some patches of avalanche lilly.
I headed up Ptarmigan Ridge towards Echo & Observation rocks but the mountain was slowly disappearing in clouds. I found a decent spot to get some photographs before it was too late. Had about 20 minutes and then the mountain was just gone. Indeed the cloud cover was so heavy that it swallowed the ridge I was on as well and I was wondering if I could get back down to the trail. No problem though.
Oh well, another cloudy weekend but still there's nothing I'd rather be doing.
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