Backpacking in the Bighorns

July and August, 1997-2003

Lakes and Streams

Wildflowers

Trout

Hiking Buddy


Lakes and Streams

West Tensleep Lake

West Tensleep Lake (800X600)Makes an excellent wallpaper for your screen

East Tensleep Lake

Lake Helen (High Resolution) Makes an excellent wallpaper for your screen

Lake Helen (looking down)

Lake Helen (another view)

Lake Marion

Lake Marion (from up high)

Mistymoon Lake

Mistymoon (High Resolution) Makes an excellent wallpaper for your screen

Mistymoon (from up high)

Fortress Lake

Gunboat Lake

Florence Lake

Lower Golden Lake

Lake Solitude (from high on Mistymoon pass)

Lake Solitude (from the outlet side)

First Cloud Peak Lake

Third Cloud Peak Lake

Middle Cloud Peak Lake

Middle Cloud Peak Lake (High Resolution) Makes an excellent wallpaper for your screen

Mirror Lake

unnamed lake above Mirror Lake

Lower Lost Twin Lake

Upper Lost Twin Lake

Lilly Lake

Lilly Lake (from up high)

Grace Lake (on the way to Lake Solitude)

Lowest Lake in the Rough

Middle Lake in the Rough

Upper Lake in the Rough (Just below Emerald)

Emerald Lake (Lakes in the Rough)

Emerald Lake (Large for Wallpaper)

First Lake Above Emerald (Lakes in the Rough)

Second Lake Above Emerald (Lakes in the Rough)

Middle Fork of the Powder River Canyon

Middle Fork of the Wood River (Shoshone National Forest)

Fish Caught and Released

Brook trout

Brown trout (Middle Fork of the Powder River)

Rainbow trout (Middle Fork of the Powder River)

Rainbox trout (East Tensleep Lake)

Lake trout (Mistymoon Lake)

Golden trout

Cutthroat trout (Lost Twin Lake)

Cutthroat trout (Lakes in the Rough)

Cutthroat trout (Middle Fork of the Wood River)

Fish Caught and Not Released

Wildflowers Photographed

All of the flowers pictured below were photographed by Steve Berg between mid-July and mid-August of 1997 and 1998 in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. The identifications were made using Carl Schreier's A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains and Dee Stickler's Alpine Wildflowers.

Alpine Aster (Aster alpigenus)

Alpine Bistort (Polygonum viviparum)

Alpine Laurel (Kalmia microphylla)

Alpine Lewisia (Lewisia pygmaea)

Alpine Sorrel (Oxyria digyna) seed head

Arrowleaf Groundsel (Senecio triangularis)

Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)

American Bistort (Polygonum bistortoides)

Blanket Flower (Gaillardia aristata)

Butter and Eggs (Linaria vulgaris)

Common Paintbrush (Castilleja miniata)

Common Sunflower

Cow Parsnip (Heracleum lanatum)

Dark-Throat Shooting Star (Dodecatheon pulchellum)

Elephant's Head (Pedicularis groenlandica)

False Asphodel (Tofieldia glutinosa)

Fireweed (Epilobium augustifolium)(whole plant)

Fireweed (Epilobium augustifolium) (flowers)

Grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium) fruit

Harebell (Campanula rotundiflora)

Hood's Phlox (Phlox hoodii)

Ivesia (Ivesia gordoni)

Ladies Tresses (Spiranthes romanzoffiana)

Lanceleaved Stonecrop (Sedum lanceolatum) [Flower]

Lanceleaved Stonecrop (Sedum lanceolatum) [Plant]

Long Leaf Phlox (Phlox longiflora)

Lousewort (?) (Pedicularis sp?)

Low Hawksbeard (Crepis modocensis)

Marigold ?

Marshmarigold (Caltha leptosepala)

Moss Campion (Silene acaulis)

Moss Campion (Silene acaulis)(second image)

Mountain Bluebell (Mertensia ciliata)

Mountain Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis sylvatica)

Parry's Lousewort (Pedicularis parryi)

Parry's Primrose (Primula parryi)

Pasqueflower (Anemone occidentalis)

Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) Flower

Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) Seed Head

Orange Agoseris (Agoseris aurantiaca)

Richardson's Geranium (Geranium richardsoni)

Rose Crown (Sedum rhodanthum)

Sego Lily (Calochortus gunnisonii)

Showy Aster (Aster conspicuus)

Showy Fleabane (Erigeron speciosus)

Siberian Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

Silvery Lupine (Lupinus argenteus)

Small-flowered Penstemon (Penstemon procerus)

Spreading Fleabane (Erigeron divergens)

Sticky Geranium (Geranium viscosissimum)

Sulfur Buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum)

Sulfur Paintbrush (Castilleja sulphurea)

Thickstem Aster (Aster Integrifolius)

Upland Larkspur (Delphinium nuttallianum)

Western Stickseed (Lappula redowskii)

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)