Worthingto Glacier/Tundra Hike

9 June 2011
1530-2100
37F-45F

Tundra
Narcissist Flower Annenome Anemone narcissiflora
Cetraria nivalis
witches hair lichen Alectoria ochroleuca
Blackish oxetrope- Oxytropis nigrescens
Starflower- Trientalis borealis
alp lilly Lloydia serotina
low-bush cranberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea
star-tipped reindeer lichen cladina stellaris
moss heather Cassiope mertensiana
Alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina
Alpine willow Salix petrophila
Dwarf willow Salix herbacea
Crowberry Empetrum
Alpine azalea Loiseleuria procumbens
Lapland diapensia Diapensia lapponica
Labrador tea Ledum groenlandicum
Frogs pelt Peltigera neopolydactyla
Campylium stellatum Star campylium moss
Mountain buttercup Ranunculus populago
Small flower paintbrush Castillja coccinea
Glacous gentian Pale Gentian
Worthington Glacier
Sitka alder Alnus viridis
Dwarf fireweed Chamerion latifolium
Scowlers willow Salix scouleriana
Variable willow Salix viminalis

It was another amazing hike I had not been to Worthington yet but I will definatly be back soon. What I gound really interesting about this trip was up on top of the mountain tundra. Seeing how all that life can survive in such extreame conditions is fascinateing. Their was so much diversty up there than I ever could have expected. At worthington it was cool to see the markings in the sides of the rocks where the glacier ripped through. The Ice tunnel cave was amazing being able to look up inside there and look underneath a massive glacier was incredible.