Kennicott/Glacier Trail

Thrusday, June 2nd, 2011, 12:30 pm- 5:30 pm
Overcast, very warm and cool glacial breeze

Animals:
Mourning cloak- Nymphalis antiopa
Honey bee- Apis spp.
Orange shafted flicker- Coloptes cafer

Plants:
Tall lungwort- Mertensia alpina
Soap berry- Shepherdia canadensis
3 toothed saxifrage- Saxifraga tricuspidata
Green map lichen- Rhizocarpon geographicum
False pixie cup- Cladonia chlorophaea
Yellow anenome- Anemone ranuculoides
Narcissus flowered anenome- Anemone narcissiflora
Elegant orange- Xanthorai elegans
Barclay willow- Salix Barclayi
Green comma- Polygonia faunus
Monks hood- Aconitum napellus
White heather- Cassiope mertensiana
Early blueberry- Vaccinium ovalifolium
Alpine fur- Abies lasiocarpa
Paper birch- Betula papyrifera
Felt leaf willow- Salix alba
Dwarf fireweed- Chamerion latifolium
Beautiful jacobs ladder- Polemonium elegans
Lemon lichen- Candelaria concolor
Mountain ash- Sorbus americana
Iceland moss- Cetraria islandica
Alpine bearberry- Arctostaphylos alpina
Camchatka rock cress- Arabis kamchatica
Twin flower- Linnaea borealis


This hike was spectacular the view of the glacier and karst was awesome. I enjoyed the rich vegetation as well as the history of Kenicott. The abundance of lichens thrilled me. The boreal forest is so much different than the temperate rain forest and I am glad to be able to experience both of them.