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Flowers of the CT

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The flowers on the trail are amazing. Fields of purple and yellow aster speckled with lupine   Fireweed  lights up lush creeks while columbines hold tight to the rocks in alpine meadows.  I did not take pictures of every variety of flower along the trail but here is a sampling of what I saw.  Black eyed Susan near a creek.  Not able to identify.   Lily of some type?  Purple Lupine.  Golden Aster Villosa flowers.  Chiming Bells plant.  Buttercup.  Colorado columbine.  Meadow of Alpine Sunflowers.  Indian Paint brush.  Shrubby Cinquefoil plants.  Alpine Yarrow plants.  More black eyed susans  Fire weed.  American Monk's Hood Flowers.  Grouse Whortleberry Berries.  Sun loving asters.  Fairy trumpet flowers.  Mountain Gentian flower.  Raspberry bushes as far as the eyes can see.  Fireweed is abundant along the trail.  Mule's Ear Daisy.  Tansy Aster plant.  While the Pine pole is under attack by the pine beetle, beautiful wild flower gardens are growing with the improved lighting in
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Spring Creek Pass to Durango

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8/16-  The morning started toasty warm sleeping in Van Gogh. A nice breakfast, a goodbye to our friends Jeff, Sue and Naomi, and back on the trail. Naomi was leaving the trail for good to get to a wedding. Sue and Jeff will be heading to Molas Pass Campground to meet us with our final resupply.   Weather forecast was for rain in the afternoon and the weatherman did not disappoint. Today's challenge was to make it over the highest point of the CT, Carson's Saddle at 13,200'. Just under 4,000' of elevation gain for the day.   We spent the morning making our way over a final Mesa to our climb.  Rain clouds and distant thunder concerned us as we approached Carson Saddle, so we waited for the weather to break.  The sun peeked  through the clouds after about 40 minutes, so we decided to make a go at the Pass.  The views were gorgeous but before we knew it a thunder storm rolled in. We were at 13,000' at the time so we dropped several hundred feet and took cover in a hollo
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