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Devil’s Thumb (740m elev. gain)

Kona on Devil’s Thumb in mid-June – l. to r.: Little Beehive, Lake Agnes & Tea-house, Big Beehive, Lake Louise and Chateau.

View of Devil’s Thumb (pinnacle just left of centre) from Lake Agnes at 7am.

Plain of Six Glaciers with Mt. Lefroy and Mt. Victoria from Devil’s Thumb.

Mt. St. Piran to the north.

Alpine Bog-laurel (Kalmia microphylla or polifolia)

Heartleaf Arnica (Arnica cordifolia)

Early Blue Violet (Viola adunca)

Leather-leaved Saxifrage (Leptarrhena pyrolifolia)

Spotted Saxifrage (Saxifraga bronchialis)

Western Anemone (Anemone occidentalis)

Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) – eats insects!

Prairie Mtn. (700m elev. gain)

Kona on Prairie Mtn. in mid-June, Moose Mtn. in clouds behind.

Early Yellow / Field Locoweed (Oxytropis campestris)

Alpine Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis alpestris)

Cutleaf Daisy / Fleabane (Erigeron compositus)

White Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala)

Northern Sweetvetch (hedysarum boreale)

Mountain Meadow Cinquefoil (Potentilla diversifolia)

Mountain / Bering Chickweed (Cerstium beeringianum)

Alpine Milkvetch (Astragalus alpinus) maybe

Shrubby Cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa)

Heartleaf Arnica (Arnica cordifolia)

Fringed Bluebell (Mertensia ciliata) or Tall Bluebell (Mertensia paniculata)

Paget Fire Lookout (510m elev. gain)

Kona at the lookout in mid-June – view up Lake O’Hara valley with, l. to r.: Mts. Victoria North, Huber, Wiwaxy, Biddle and Schaffer in the distance.

View down Kickinghorse Valley toward Field. BC and Mt. Stephen.

Cathedral Mtn. and Cathedral Crags.

yellow Columbine (Aquilegia flavescens)

Early Blue Violet (Viola adunca)

Western or Few-flowered Anemone maybe

White Dryad / White Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala)