July 25, 2015 American Basin hike, Colorado

Mandy and I hiked up to American Basin. We rode our mountain bikes 2.5 miles along the canal dirt road, then hiked up 2.5 miles to the lake. The flowers were fabulous.

Mandy walking though colorful flowers. The stream coming from American Lake, way above tree line.

So many wildflowers. Hemlock, aster, whipple's penstemon and geraniums. Bog orchids, paintbrush and columbines.

Campions, field of elephant heads and a lousewort. White flowers, sedum and larkspurs. 

Queens Crown, globe flowers, bittercress, and salmon colored paintbrush. Bistort, alpine clover and pussy willows.

Field of multicolored flowers.

S curved stream bed and lots of marsh marigolds just below a snowfield.

Bright pink Parry's primrose, maybe young sedums and moss. A field of flowers where we had lunch.

Fields of paintbrush

Colorful mix, senecio, gone by globe flower, unknown. Pika, jacob's ladder, multicolored mix, marsh marigolds and parry's primrose. 

Noku Crags over the lake and meadow. Mandy in waist deep flowers.

Flowerful views.

Another view, columbines, mix, mushroom in the trail and yet another mix.

Butterfly on a bistort, fringed gentians and a moose.