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    • North Cascades
      • Blanca Lake
      • Cedar Falls (Okanogan County)
      • Chain Lakes and Table Mountain
      • Cutthroat Lake
      • Cutthroat Pass (via Pacific Crest Trail)
      • Cutthroat Lakes and Bald Mountain
        (Walt Bailey Trail / Mallardy Ridge Trail)
      • Sweetleehachu / Goat Lake and Elliot Creek
      • Heather Lake
      • Lake Ann and Lower Curtis Glacier
      • Lake Twentytwo
      • Mount Dickerman
      • Mount Pilchuck
      • Sauer’s Mountain
      • Wallace Falls and Wallace Lake
    • Central Cascades
      • Annette Lake and Asahel Curtis Nature Trail
      • Bandera Mountain
      • Cold Creek – Pacific Crest Trail Loop and Mirror Lake
      • Commonwealth Basin, Red Pass, and Lundin Peak
      • Dirty Harry’s Balcony, Dirty Harry’s Museum, and Dirty Harry’s Peak
      • Franklin Falls and Snoqualmie Pass Wagon Road
      • Gem Lake and Wildcat Lakes
        (High Lakes Trail)
      • Gold Creek Pond, Gold Creek, and Alaska Lake
      • Granite Lakes and Granite Creek
      • Granite Mountain
      • Kendall Katwalk, Ridge Lake, and Gravel Lake
      • Koppen Mountain
      • Lake Serene and Bridal Veil Falls
      • Lake Stuart
      • Little Si
      • Lodge Lake, Beaver Lake, and Olallie Meadow
      • Lower Tuscohatchie Lake
        (Melakwa – Pratt Lake Traverse)
      • Margaret Lake, Twin Lakes, and Lake Lillian
      • Mason Lakes, Rainbow Lake, and Island Lake (Ira Spring Trail)
      • Melakwa Lakes and Denny Creek
      • Mount Catherine
      • Mount Defiance
      • q̓əlbc̓ / Mount Si
      • Mount Teneriffe
      • Mount Washington (King County)
      • Pratt Lake
      • Rachel Lake, Rampart Lakes, Lila Lake, and Alta Mountain
      • Rattlesnake Ledge and Rattlesnake Mountain
      • Snow Lake (King County)
      • Talapus Lake and Olallie Lake
      • Twin Falls
        (South Fork Snoqualmie River)
    • South Cascades
      • Bench Lake and Snow Lake
        (Mt. Rainier National Park)
      • Carbon River
        (Rainforest Loop, Old Mine, Green Lake, Chenuis Falls, and Ipsut Falls)
      • Lakes Trail and High Lakes Trail
        (High Lakes Loop)
      • Mt. St. Helens
        (Monitor Ridge Climbing Route)
      • Pinnacle Peak
        (Mt. Rainier National Park)
      • Skyline Trail
        (Mt. Rainier National Park)
      • Tolmie Peak and Eunice Lake
    • Olympic Peninsula
      • Kloshe Nanitch and the North Point
      • Marmot Pass
        (Upper Big Quilcene Trail)
      • Marymere Falls, Barnes Creek, and the Aurora Divide
      • Mount Muller
      • Mount Storm King
      • Mount Zion
      • Ozette Triangle
        (Cape Alava and Sand Point)
      • Sol Duc Falls, Lover’s Lane Loop, Deer Lake, and Mink Lake
    • Lowlands and Islands
      • Carbon River
        (Rainforest Loop, Old Mine, Green Lake, Chenuis Falls, and Ipsut Falls)
      • Marymere Falls, Barnes Creek, and the Aurora Divide
      • Mount Constitution, Mountain Lake, Twin Lakes, and Cascade Creek
      • Ozette Triangle
        (Cape Alava and Sand Point)
      • Franklin Falls and Snoqualmie Pass Wagon Road
      • Little Si
      • Sauer’s Mountain
      • Rattlesnake Ledge and Rattlesnake Mountain
      • Twin Falls
        (South Fork Snoqualmie River)
  • Flora
    • Bistorta bistortoides
      (alpine bistort, American bistort)
    • Blechnum spicant
      syn. Struthiopteris spicant
      (deer fern, hard fern)
    • Chamaenerion angustifolium
      syn. Chamerion angustifolium
      (fireweed, rosebay willowherb)
    • Cornus unalaschkensis
      (western bunchberry)
    • Geum macrophyllum
      (largeleaf avens)
    • Hemitomes congestum
      (gnome plant, cone plant)
    • Lilium columbianum
      (Columbia lily, Columbian lily)
    • Lupinus latifolius
      (broadleaf lupine)
    • Maianthemum dilatatum
      (two-leaved false Solomon’s seal,
      two-leaved false lily-of-the-valley)
    • Maianthemum racemosum
      (plumed, or, feathery false Solomon’s seal, Solomon’s plume)
    • Maianthemum stellatum
      (star-flowered, or, starry false Solomon’s seal; star-flowered, or, starry false lily-of-the-valley)
    • Monotropa hypopitys
      syn. Hypopitys monotropa
      (pinesap)
    • Monotropa uniflora
      (ghost pipe, ghost plant, ghost flower, corpse plant)
    • Olsynium douglasii
      (grass-widow, purpled-eyed grass, satin flower)
    • Spiraea splendens
      (subalpine spiraea, rosy spiraea, mountain meadow sweet)
    • Tellima grandiflora
      (fringecup)
    • Tolmiea menziesii
      (youth-on-age, piggyback plant)
    • Trillium ovatum
      (Pacific trillium, western trillium, western white trillium, western wakerobin)
    • Viola glabella
      (pioneer violet, stream violet)
    • Viola sempervirens
      (evergreen violet, redwood violet)
    • Xerophyllum tenax
      (common beargrass)
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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”
Aristotle


Welcome to Hesperos Flown, an illustrated journal of Western Washington’s woodland wilds and the wonders that inhabit them. Explore here for featured hiking trails and wildflower species, curated outdoor resources and safety tips, and reflections on this enchanted corner of our natural world.

Trails

A hiking trail is not merely a means to an end or a sprint to a coveted prize on some

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Flora

Cascadia is endowed with a wealth of wild flora from its rugged coasts to its alpine heights and arid sagelands. 

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Resources

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Reflections

There is no earthly domain so near the divine as the unsullied land at the very doorstep of the gods:

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