Contributed by hike leader Roz O’Donoghue 

Peak wildflowers. Abundant butterflies.  Nature was on full display for 5 CONC hikers July tenth.  The price of admission was an arduous ascent and the payoff was a wonderful variety of blooms and butterflies on high open slopes with views of the Cascades. The hike also featured a forest with tall, majestic Hemlocks, Douglas Firs as well as an ascending meadow replete with flowers and ferns.