Notes on the Magical Existence of Mountain Top Lady Bugs

Mt. Stuart looks like a cavity-riven incisor of prolonged petrified monster. The dark ridges birthed in a Late Cretaceous appear to rise sheer in to a sky, ripping during a mid-morning blue.Dusty checks a track upon a topo map. Damn near all photos by Dusty J Summit

FROM HERE, 2 or so miles away, Stuart looks deceptively sheer, flat almost. A ripped square of gray building a whole paper held opposite a sky. But as you breeze from a scree hillock of Longs Pass as well as pick a approach by a scrubby hollow where granite sloughs H2O in to squishy acres of grass, a figure of a towering reveals itself as thousands of angles as well as billions of rocks.

mid towering

The proliferation of lifes forms surrounding us, a pines as well as meadow flowers, doesnt delayed a walk but arrests a minds. All this immature thrusting skyward.

Indian paintbrush, Castilleja angustifolia

The going is steep. its a singular prolonged stone slide which contingency be hopped, scrambled, climbed. The representation rises until a summit is lost among a reaches of stone as well as dust.

The judgment of walking up a towering in a singular afternoon still boggles my senses, even as my right feet finds purchase as well as lurches me forward.

This is a approach mountains are climbed, a singular feet in front of another. One stone during a time. a singular glacial stream during! a time. One breathe, a singular curse, a singular banged knee, a singular Power Bar, a singular reminiscent fantasy, a singular a one preferred chorus, 1 foot, 1 calorie, 1 second, bit by bit by bit.

the perspective from a top, seeking towards Sherpa Peak

The tip is all unconstrained views of Washingtons most mountains. The peaks as well as valleys demeanour like solidified waves seen from a prow of an old row boat.

9,100 ft

Rainier is a white behemoth shrugging off clouds in a distance. The towering looks god-like as well as someway swathed in magic.
But this isnt magic.

Magic is woman bugs landing upon your impertinence afterwards knee afterwards foot. Magic is seeking down during hundreds of nesting flush shelled beetles. The insectile faeries yield from a towering tip crevices to float in erratic moody patterns.

Coccinella septempunctata

The participation of a bugs moves me to laughter as a cute creatures yield from cracks as well as hug in a sun. The towering breathes woman bugs in to a Sep air.

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