These #bcparks #camping reservations are becoming harder to get than concert tickets, it's wild. But here we go, Black Tusk trip in the works and its main logistics hurdle has been taken care of!

Is it alpine #wildflower season yet? 🌼
Always get excited this time of year in anticipation of the upcoming summer #backpacking season. This photo of paintbrush flowers was take on Flower Ridge in Strathcona Provincial Park on #VancouverIsland last year.
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Highlight of last summer was finally making it across to #MarbleMeadows in #StrathconaProvincialPark on #VancouverIsland . This alpine route is only reachable via a canoe crossing of Buttle Lake. The alpine is know for it's unique karst formations, limestone, fossils and wildflowers. #bcparks This was 4 days of #backpacking bliss in the #outdoors 🏕️

I quickly fell in love with the sight of wild buckwheats in the Okanagan, like this parsnipflower buckwheat (Eriogonum heracleoides).

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A charming yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) spotted from the road.

#marmot #marmota #mammal #rodent #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #britishcolumbia #canada

Some charming little Lithophragma leaves, also called "woodland stars."

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A cute little plant from the Okanagan, Hemizonella minima.

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Another tiny cute plant from the Okanagan, Hemizonella minima (opposite-leaved tarweed).

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I came across quite a few of these charming little flowers in the Okanagan. These are Collinsia parviflora, the small-flowered blue-eyed Mary.

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A cool beetle, probably Ptomister!

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