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.

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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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Some plump little tufts of Sedum (stonecrop) up on a mountain in the Okanagan.

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