[today’s run: Coyote Ridge 4.5 miles]
When we were in RMNP a couple of weeks ago, hiking and camping, we went on a bit of a hike up the Fern Lake trail. Along the way I saw a lot of berries. There were three kinds, red, pink and blue. My wife told me the pink ones were rose hips. Later she said the blue ones were huckleberries. I don’t know what the red ones are. We didn’t see any bears eating the berries, but it looked like a good crop that would attract that kind of attention.
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Rose Hips
Newsflash! Google tells me these are probably Oregon Grape (not huckleberries, sorry Sweetie)
Another notable plant-life thing we saw on that trip was at the Devil’s Backbone down near Loveland. It is a more arid, open area there. And I saw these pod things on the yucca plants. Google tells me they are seed pods.
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Uncle Ron makes huckleberry jam, as you probably know.