Back to Carter Summit and south on the PCT again, to find the headwaters of the South Fork of the Scott River and the wet meadows that line the trail there. The view from the top is of a long, glorious, green slide down to Scott Valley.
There were still plenty of water crossings in late June, despite a perilously dry winter. And at every water crossing, a dense green tunnel of ferns, tiger lilies, corn lilies, cow parsnip and angelica, columbine and aconitum, nine-bark and mountain maple. Through it all flits hundreds of butterflies of all kinds.
In the dry sections, coyote mint and scarlet gilia:
Cliff penstemon (mountain pride) and paintbrush in their neon glory:
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