Mineral Greek Trail

July 08, 2008 On Thuesday
Weather: 68 degree and rainy and sun blocked with thick rain clouds.

We went on trip Mineral Greek Trail in Valdez, reosan why they called this place mineral Greek is there were gold and copper minning a long ago. We studied variety of plant and vegetations such as Siberian Aster, Common Fireweed, Nagoonberry(which was we had seen before in Dock Point), Elegant Paintbrush, Coastal Paintbrush, Wild Celery, Goatsbeard, Sitka Valerien, Alaska Spiraea, Tall Cotton Grass except these plants we have indentified two new type of cranberry which had not seen yet to us. These were called Low-bush Cranberry, and High-Bush Cranberry. In Mongolia we do have low-bush Cranberry a lot in the mountain. People eat the cranberry also they boil the cranberry leaves as a tea and drink it when they got cold in the winter time. Mongolian name of cranberry is ANNES. At the same time we do not have High-bush cranberry based on my sophisticated knowledge of mountain fruit vegitations.

We had seen bunch of Chocolate Lily, it was my sight of highlight in this trip. So, I would like to share my Chocolate lily's (my favorite flower) photo by Emmanuel.