2012.09.12 03:11
Mount Goliath Wildflower Hike (1/2) July 10, 2012 This is a wildflower hikes that follow the Mount Goliath M. Walter Pesman Trail -- a moderately difficult, 1.5 mile downhill trek, starting from the upper parking lot at 12,153 ft. (3,704 meter) to the Dos Chappell Nature Center at 11,540 ft. The trail runs mostly at the south facing slope of the Mount Goliath. There is a 0.5-mile trail loop at the upper trailhead that is an easier hike. Also, there is a nature garden at the Dos Chappell Nature Center. Right after passing the Echo Lake, the junction comes at right. There's is a fee station by U. S. Forest Service, charging $10 for the use of this road to the summit. It was just two days ago when the final federal court settlement was made not to charge the road fee any more. Apparently the executive order had not reached here and I was asked to pay $10, becoming one of a few last persons who paid the fee as a form of double taxation as claimed by the Colorado activists. I could have refused to pay and they had no choice but to allow me to go on. I will get a citation of no compliance that had never been enforced before. I didn't mind paying the double taxation at such a wonderful place. The forest ranger seemed to be in a low tone and apologetic. I didn't say anything and paid my due. I am always grateful to the rangers of National Forest Service and National Parks. They are the true public servants in the grass root of this nation.
At 11,540 feet high, the nature garden at Dos Chappell is the highest botanical garden in the world, established in 2003. The seeds are only from the Mount Evans and were grown at the Denver Botanical Garden and then transfered back here. Mount Goliath Trail was established in 1958 mainly to preseve the bristlecone pines growing at this location. Some of the oldest trees are about 1,500 years old. Some of the dead trunks still left on the slope are more than 2,000 years old. Our tour group arriving at the upper trailhead Grays and Torreys Peaks at the Far right background (I bagged both of them last year). In the middle background is the east face of Mount Evans (I am under training to climb it in August this year from the west face where there's no highway). The beginning of the Pesman Trail of Mount Goliath. Alan went ahead of us while Deborah and Chris stayed with us. According to our guide, high alpine plants have 6-inch rule in general, meaning most plants at this altitude do not exceed 6 inches in height. They mostly have small leaves but have larger flowers than their cousins in the lower altitudes. Also, rather than solitary, they tend to stay as clumps, rosette formation, or matt formation to adapt to desert or high altitude. Most of them are perennials. Annuals can not survive well because of the short growing season in the high altitude. Fendler Sandwort , small star-like white flowers on taller stem (but less than 6 inches). Fendler Sandwort here (while Alpine Sandwort are much shorter and form cushion pad instead. They have short white flowers.)
American Bistort: White bulbous heads. It has stem leaves. This one is one exception to the 6-inch rule.
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The summer of 2012 was one of the busiest in my personal life as well as in our website.
I didn't have much time or space in my own and in our website to upload some of the events of the summer.
At what appears to be a lull in the hectic busy spells of this summer in our website,
I am uploading a few of my own records for preservation.
Otherwise, they may get forgotten forever as new events unfold continuously out of my control.
I will upload a few webpages under the series-title of [Memoirs of Summer].
Some of these may not be interesting to many of you.
Actually, they are placed here as my personal references in the future days.
If you can enjoy at least a part of them, it will be wonderful.
You may just skip the whole thing or may skim the pictures without bothering the texts.