Wild Basin

Mm-hmm.

Um, and then the Wild Basin side of Rocky Mountain National Park, 'cause those were right back to back.

Um, granted, I was doing a lot of ridgeline scrambling in that section.

[chuckles]

I confess, my first time seeing the Mariposa Lily, I was hiking with our former Prairie Mountain Zen brother, David Copeland.

We were out hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park in the Wild Basin area.

Part of the park south of Longs Peak.

And we were going up.

You might remember that I did an entire episode hiking up Hermann Gulch last year near the Eisenhower Pass in Colorado.

the explosion um silly but i compare it to a crayola crayon box the big ones of 64 that the kids love and i loved when i was a kid every possible color in the world and i went through dozens of different species of wild flowers there, and that's true all through Colorado, in Wild Basin, in Grand Mesa, and everywhere.

But very, very few wild flowers here.

A lot of fireweed, the purple fireweed, but there's just not a lot of wild flowers.