We drove out to the Manastash Ridge Trails trailhead near Thorp this morning. We made a loop hike going up Westberg Trail, headed west to come down Cheeky Bugger to Prater Trail. We saw lots of wildflowers (and the bitterroot is blooming!) and only 5 other hikers.
Most of the balsamroot at lower elevations was past peak, but were much better higher up.
Partial zoom looking across to the distant mountain peaks
zoom of Mt Stuart
View from further up the trail: paintbrush, lupine, buckwheat and groundsel in the grass.
Balsamroot, phlox, buckwheat, lupine and groundsel
Another view looking across to the distant mountain peaks to the northwest
Balsamroot, lupine and paintbrush
Balsamroot, phlox and lots of antelope bitterbrush as we get higher up the ridge
lupine, phlox and balsamroot
Oregon sunshine and lupine
View from the top of Westberg Trail
Lots of balsamroot here
Looking across the ridge to the south, the ground is covered with buckwheat, bitterroot, penstemon and
Thompson's paintbrush.A few of the many bitterroot blossoms we saw this morning:
Heading down the Cheeky Bugger Trail, lots of wildflowers lining the trail.
Remembering to look up for the view also!
Connecting to the Prater Trail, abundant wildflowers, 
extending all the way up the ridge.
And wildflowers growing in the woods.
butterflysome of the wildflowers we saw along the trail this morning:
and more bitterroot:
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