After our stay at Gold Butte we drove all the way down to Coffin Mountain and hiked there. Our timing was good. Even though the lower beargrass was done, the beargrass up top was looking very nice, and there were other wildflowers along the whole trail.
We hit the trail at 12:45. The wildflower show starts immediately on this hike, a welcome treat.
The forecast threatened rain, but it fortunately never materialized, and the heavy cloud cover stayed high enough that we still had views (although it sure made for a muggy day, ugh.)
Almost there!
At the summit I talked to Ann at the lookout. She had just arrived the day before, although she normally comes up in June. I sat and ate my snack and enjoyed the view.
This was a documentation hike for Greg (where he documents and photographs every single wildflower), so he was taking his time, but after nearly an hour at the summit there was still no sign of him. I headed back down and ran into him just below the summit. He didn’t get back to the car until 5, which means it took over four hours to do a three-mile hike. I think this might be a new record! This is why I never go anywhere without a book. 😉
Anyway, great wildflower hike and we got super lucky with the weather, which we thought was going to be much worse than it was.
