#eagle peak

[mountrainiernps]

Despite some late season snow last weekend, subalpine areas like Paradise are melting out fast. Large patches of snow remain, with snow-covered trails at higher elevations. Please stay on trail or on snow instead of skirting around snow patches! It may look like muddy ground, but many meadow plants are starting to emerge and stepping of trail tramples the wildflowers you may be coming to see.

Once snow melts away, wildflowers start blooming quickly. Look for numerous avalanche and glacier lilies in subalpine meadows. Common along roadsides, spreading phlox (Phlox diffusa) can also be found on talus slopes. This patch was photographed near the Eagle Peak Trail saddle. Phlox blooms are bluish-white at first, transitioning to pink as they age.

For updates on what’s blooming where visit https://go.nps.gov/RainierWildflower

Unfamiliar with Mount Rainier’s wildflower species? Check out the wildflower guide at https://go.nps.gov/RainierWildflowerGuide

NPS/A. Wotton Photo of spreading phlox along Eagle Peak Trail, 6/15/23. ~kl

[tetramodal]

Wulsten Baldy Acrylic on canvas 8x8". Charles Morgenstern, 2023. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains seen from Coaldale, Colorado.

[pcttrailsidereader]

The PCT takes many twists and turns as it makes it way. Often the route is predictable and logical as it follows a ridgeline or parallels a creek or moves toward a pass. But there are many stretches of trail where I have scratched my head about the chosen route. There are times when the trail avoids unseen hazards or swings around to touch a water source. There are other times when the trail has to avoid private land or, in the case of the trail west of Scott Mountain Summit, Camp Unalayee. What is the backstory on such routing decisions?

Tom Buoye shares the backstory on this one stretch of the PCT . . . a story that is both unique and common along the length of the trail.

Why does the PCT west of Scott Mountain Summit (Section P) get lose elevation but becomes more scenic with the vistas of the Trinity  Alps appearing to the southwest?  As you cross over the divide into Trinity County, just after entering the Trinity Alps Wilderness area, the PCT no longer hangs as close to the top of the ridges as possible,  but for 4 miles slowly drops until it crosses Mosquito Creek, with easy access to water,  and then climbs gradually until it gets as high as possible.  It does this because of an extraordinary agreement between the USFS and Camp Unalayee, a private non-profit summer camp.  

The USFS helped to  save the experiences of hundreds of children every year who attend Camp Unalayee by routing the PCT below Mosquito Lake on Camp Unalayee property.

Camp Unalayee was established on Mosquito Lake  in the Trinity Alps Primitive Area in 1959.  Ever since then Unalayee has  taken 100’s of  campers on backpacking trips all over the Klamath Mountains each year.  Unalayee is by far the biggest user of the 25 miles of the PCT that crosses the Alps.   Unalayee uses it to access the dozen of lakes and streams that campers backpack to in the Klamath River drainage.  (See earlier posts on this website about Unalayee and its unique relationship to the PCT -- https://pcttrailsidereader.com/post/58069038741/place-of-friends-part-1)

In the early 1970s, the temporary PCT transected the Trinity Alps Primitive Area on existing trails, logging roads and highways in the north-eastern section of this 500,000 acre roadless area.  Needless to say the temporary PCT was far below Scott Mountain on Highway 3 and involved a hour long uphill hike to Mosquito Lake on the old Tangle Blue trail.

In 1975, as I remember it, the USFS personnel attended a Camp Unalayee Board of Directors (BOD) meeting and proposed to put the trail between Scott Mountain and Eagle Peak.  Several proposals were considered.  The Forest Service was very aware of Camp Unalayee concerns regarding the impact of hundreds of hikers passing right above the lake heavily used by campers.   This would be one of the few lakes PCT hikers would have seen since leaving Deadfall Lakes.

The Unalayee BOD proposed using the existing temporary trail. Too much elevation gain and loss the USFS correctly stated.  What about putting the trail on the north side of the Siskiyou-Trinity divide the Unalayee BOD suggested? Once again the USFS correctly said that route had too much snow that could and did exist into late August in some years.   And would have been much more costly due to the steep and rocky terrain.

The USFS then suggested a route that would contour through the Mosquito Lake basin 100 vertical feet above the lake.  They could have done this, as it was all public land. The Unalayee BOD freaked out. This could destroy our Unalayee or certainly impact it significantly.  No way, you can’t do this. Yes they could.

(Double click on map image to enlarge)

Fortunately, the USFS proposed another possibility that involved routing the trail above the Unalayee access road eventually contouring below the road until it crossed onto Unalayee’s property, forded Mosquito Creek before climbing gradually to the ridge separating the Mosquito and Marshy Lake basins.

But it would require the Unalayee BOD  to grant a variance to the USFS to cut the trail on private property.  It was a brilliant suggestion and after some discussion it was approved with one exception.  One lot owner down on Little Marshy Lake was adamantly opposed.  He felt it would impact his land.  "You hippies ‘had no respect for private property’, he muttered.

Later, when the trail was being cut above Marshy Lake through massive fields of manzanita and brush, that lot owner, hiked up from Little Marshy on the Unalayee use trail and realized that the PCT would have no impact on his beautiful spot along Little Marshy Lake. And to this day there has been little if any impact on Camp Unalayee or other private property nearby. It is a PCT success story.

As a side note, when the PCT was being laid out they (Marlboro Man, as he was called) tied yellow ribbons to the foilage.   He had to come back the following year to re-mark the proposed route with new ribbons as Unalayee campers came back from near Eagle  Peak with hundreds of feet of the yellow ribbon, tied in their hair and to their backpacks.

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Yellow-Golden dresses FINALS! - Bai Zhouyue, Novoland: eagle flag (pics set) vs Edith Cushing, Crimson peak (gifset)

[littleraeofsunshineda]

Making a list of the biggest macho movies which accidentally made gay dramas...

I'll start:

TOP GUN

THE EAGLE

TOP GUN: EXES MAVERICK

...now you guys

[harmoniouseclipse]

Half bird Jean character design sheet wip for a silly little project I'm doing 😋

[eminsunnytoons123]

Class of 3000: back to the SING! Ft. Geometric shaped muppets

Sam with squishmallows of class of 3000

Dedicated to @iggyguyy @ducktoonz903707 @vickymcsworld @fancytigercupcake @moshywoosh @ilovescaredysquirrel2 loved ones in my tumblr family that always support me And love me And my work, Projects And creativity, heres a picture of xenagon sam with The sketch of the Main cast of class of 3000 as squishmallows =^_^=

In this picture, y'all can see xenagon sam with my pen And he is sketching the Main cast of class of 3000 as squishmallows, he helped me a bit =^///^=

I honestly really like how I Drew them, I think they look cute TBH =^/////^= 🧡💛♥️

And I Got inspired by the five muppets squishmallows that were made this year on february, And those squishmallows are Kermit, fozzie, miss piggy, animal And sam =^.^=

I hope y'all will like this =^_^= ♥️💛🧡

[thorsenmark]

Still Wishing I Was There by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views across a nearby grassy meadow with evergreen trees to more distant ridges and peaks of the East-Central San Juan Mountains. This was while staying at the Elk Trace Bed & Breakfast in the Pagosa Springs area of Colorado. My thought in composing this image was to capture a balanced, leveled-on view with our horizon, aligning the mountains off the distance along the image center. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 6 where I added a Polarization, Foliage, and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

[butchyena]

brother's townhouse has a bird's nest thats been infiltrated by a black-billed cuckoo and hes promised to send me regular updates oh boy oh boy

edit: OR its a brown-headed cowbird....

[jcamilov06]

Jalen Carter attempts to intercept the ball spike vs. Kansas City Chiefs | November 20th, 2023

[tasty-patches]

We are building a religion

We are building it bigger

It is normal to want it

And possible to achieve

[pseudonemisis]

i need everyone to see this piece of art

[larkmousedesigns]

would love to see jagged peak in your style

Jagged Peak + Dew Nose

[tenth-sentence]

The morning was cool, and mists were in the valleys and hollows and twined here and there about the peaks and pinnacles of the hills.

"The Hobbit" - J. R. R. Tolkien

[lacomandante]

I know there’s much higher quality clips from the Sharpe series on youtube now, but back in 2017 this was the very first clip I had ever seen with Teresa, as there weren’t many in general. (Though this one cuts off the first part of the scene). I had only ever seen pictures at that point. I’m very fond of this video and this moment in Eagle and I remember being so surprised to hear her voice for the first time!!  I loved her accent and the way she spoke and the tenderness in the scene HOOKED me. So yeah have a little snippet of Sharpe’s Eagle <3

[rosemist50]

The last Quiet Rain son, Jagged Peak, and his mate Holly. And their three kits Eagle Feather, Dew Nose, and Storm Pelt.

Originally posted to IG December 2021