Ascending Big Crow Mountain.
The first lookout on Big Crow Mountain. The second lookout is usually better and that was true here too.
View from Big Crow Mountain
View from Big Crow Mountain (Little Crow Mountain in the foreground?)
Gabor identifying the surrounding mountains.
Our group, less Gabor.
Those of us with a Y chromosome.
Luscious moss
Ooooooh!
Aaaaaaaah!
Oooooooh, aaaaaaaah!
Reindeer moss, a lichen that only grows 3-5mm per year!!
Softy-tofty moss
Don't you want to touch it?
Small-scale landscape: blueberry plants (I think) mulched by reindeer moss.
Electric-lilac-coloured asters are one of my favourite fall wildflowers.
One of the views from the Nud-Da-Ga-O Ridge trail.
Often the taller trees hugging the mountain had shorter branches facing out, longer branches pointing to the mountain.
Are those fissures from the glaciers?
The birch trees below had already lost most of their leaves.
Another lookout from the Nun-Da-Ga-O Ridge. Maybe this was atop Weston Mountain.
View from Weston Mountain; Lost Pond below.
Lost Pond from Weston Mountain, once more.
White pine tree hanging on to Weston Mountain.
Grasses growing on a windy ledge.
The grasses once more. (Or maybe they're sedges, not grasses.)
Rocky outcrop
Half of the group headed off to Hurricane Mountain (behind us) but the other half of us (here, plus Gabor) took it a bit easier and had more time to admire the vantage-points. Left to right: me, Marie-Helene, Ion, Dana.
Moss that looked like a really curly beard.
Viburnum alnifolia - Hobblebush or Witch Hobble - I had no idea it had such great fall colour.
The flash burned out some of the blue, but they're still pretty eh?
There were a few of these lean-to's along the trail (capacity 8, I think).
View from the edge of the lake.
Yep, there really are beavers here. We visited its dam and saw its den too.
More luscious moss.
