Hm. Last post was snow pictures. And now its August. I suppose I'll keep this blog limping along barely alive by posting a couple pics from trip out west in July.

First stop was Portland, for a conference. No interesting pics from the conference of course, but afternoon wanderings led me to the international rose test garden, with 700-800 different species of roses. Don't ask me which species these three are...



After that was up to Washington. Unlike the last couple summer, I didn't do any crazy hikes or backpacking. Just a couple short hikes, but into some nice areas.

Small waterfall on the trail to North Lake

Ice caves.

Looking down on fireweed

The end of the ice caves trail


Sunset-ish golden light

Looking through one of the smaller ice caves