(Orange/Yellow Trail Gallery Has Five Pictures)	Go to Top

This is the Orange/Yellow Trail north of the Visitor's Center in summer and in winter. Note how different everything looks. In winter, with snow on the ground, you can barely tell where the trail is located, and it's easy to get lost. Below are summer pictures showing different stages of plant growth at different elevations.

These two pictures show the influence of elevation on ripening of fruits. The blue berries on the left are green and were found at a higher elevation than the blue berries on the right, which are beginning to ripen.

These mulberries at a high elevation were still green.

These wineberries were still in their protective calyx covers, which will open up as the berries ripen. They were also at a higher elevation. Similar wineberries at lower elevation were riper, but I ate them.

Note that wineberries (Rubus phoenicolasius) are related to but not the same as the raspberries at the store (which are often a hybrid of Rubus idaeus and Rubus strigosus). Wineberries are an invasive species, but the birds and I agree that they are tasty.