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Independence and North Lakes, Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, WA
July 2010
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Synopsis
For a summer day hike, we went up to the nearby Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. We spent the day hiking up to Independence Lake and North Lake where we were rewarded the an abundance of blooming wildflowers, great views, and montane wildlife. Snow still covered the last 0.5-1.0 mile of the trail down to North Lake making us decide against hiking all the way down to the lake. Still we were able to enjoy the view of North Lake below and the Enchantments beyond.
Near the pass, a pika was actively calling and scurring around the rocks. We got great views of the pika, probably the closest we've been to a pika. We also flushed mother Sooty Grouse, who watched us warily. We weren't sure what she was doing until we moved on and flushed the chick!
The hike was a refreshing escape away from the city. The trail was fairly busy with other's looking for a little escape, but there was a great amount of beauty and wilderness to loose ourselves in.
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| Sooty Grouse | 1 male heard, 1 female with chick |
| Rufous Hummingbird | 1 female, flew in the car |
| Northern Flicker | heard |
| Red-breasted Sapsucker | 1 juvenile |
| Pacific-sloped Flycatcher | heard |
| Black Swift | 2 overhead |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | heard |
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee | |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | heard |
| Winter Wren | |
| Brown Creeper | heard |
| Townsend's Warbler | heard |
| Hermit Thrush | many singing and seen |
| Varied Thrush | seen |
| Song Sparrow | near lake |
| Dark-eyed Junco | |
| Pine Siskin | |
| Animals: | |
| Douglas Squirrel | |
| Pika | |
| Chipmunk sp. | |
| Cascade Frog | and eggs |
| Flowers: | |
| star-flower solomon seal | |
| thimbleberry | |
| goats beard | |
| colombine | |
| queens cup | |
| bleeding heart | |
| coralroot | |
| bunchberry | |
| elderberry | |
| fool's huckleberry | |
| blue violet | |
| rain orchard | |
| stink currant | |
| marsh marigold | |
| mountain bistort | |
| sitka valerian | |
| fairybell | |
| buttercup | |
| lupine | |
| edible thistle | |
| silver leaf phacelia | |
| penstomone | |
| mountain ash | |
| yellow violet | |
| arniacia | |
| alpine mitreworte | |
| fedler's waterleaf | |
| tiger lily | |
| lousewort | |
| mountain willowweed | |
| insideout flower | |
| creeping phlox | |
| indian paintbrush | |
| fringecup | |
| blueberry | |
| glacier lily |
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