Root Glacier Trail

Time: 12:30-5:30
Date: Thursday 2 June, 2011
Place: Kennicott, Root Glacier Trail
Temperature: 66 to 69 degrees

Weather: Sunny day with very little breeze. Scorching sun at times.

Plants:

Soap Berries- Shepherdia canadensis

Prickly Saxifrage/Three tooth- Saxifraga tricuspidata

Green Map Lichen- Rhizocarpon geographicum

False Pixie Cup- Cladonia chlorophaea

Yellow Anemone- Anemone ranuculoides

Large Flowered Wintergreen- Pyrola grandiflora

Narcissus Flowered Anemone- Anemone narcissiflora

Elegant Orange Lichen- Xanthorai elegans

Buttercup- Ranunculus

Green Comma- Polygonia faunus

Monks Hood- Acontium

White Heather- Cassiope mertensiana

Fireweed- Epilobium angustifolium

Sub Alpine Fir- Abies lasiocarpa

Alpine Avens- Acomastylis rossii turbinata

Paper Birch- Betula papyrifera

Elegant Jacobs Ladder- Polemonium elegans

Dwarf Fireweed- Chamerion latifolium

Balsam Willow- Salix pyrifolia

Kamchatka Rockcress- Arabis kamchatica

Balsam Poplar- Populus balsamifera

Green Alder- Alnus viridis

Yellow Anemone- Anemone ranuculoides

Venus Orchid- Anguloa clowesii

Wildlife:

Mourning Cloak- Nymphalis antiopa

Kennicott was such an awesome little town filled with great plants and animals and also geologically rich. The people were all so kind, and seemed to be fairly intelligent. It was a beautiful place and it had some cool history. The trail was filled with lush plant life that we have not seen in our temperate rain forest. I can say with all honesty that I will be going be going back to spend more time in there. It was a shame that we didn't make it all the way to the glacier though.