These are pics of our hike to Surprise Lake just past Index. The lake was amazing with gigantic granite slabs to linger on and snow around the edges. 

Very old tree with many reiterated tops where the old ones had broke from 

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unwraveling Deer Fern 

Sitka Valerian or Valerian Sitchensis 

Alpine White March Marigold (Caltha leptosepals) 

Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa) 

trailing yellow violet (viola sempervirens) 

An American Pika, Eptesicus fuscus 

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Adam's foot and friend 

Ashley 

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Reflections  

Smaller lake next to Surprise Lake 

reflections 

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Trillium Ovatum or Western Trillium- turns purple when it fades! 

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