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A Wonderland of Larch: Autumn in the Bitterroot Mountains

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May 26, 2021 at 5:27 pm #3716053

Mark Wetherington
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Locale: Western Montana

Companion forum thread to: A Wonderland of Larch: Autumn in the Bitterroot Mountains

There’s a few things I miss about living in the Southern Appalachians and fall color is at the top. The Northern Rockies are a majestic landscape, and

May 28, 2021 at 12:15 am #3716130

Ryan Jordan
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Locale: Central Rockies

I love the larch of Western Montana. It’s a beautiful tree that always leaves me scratching my head that it can be a yellow evergreen.

This one featuring lakeside larch from our camp in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness on a vintage Wilderness Adventures Trek:

May 28, 2021 at 9:26 am #3716153

Mark Wetherington
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Locale: Western Montana

Beautiful photo. I saw one of the most spectacular sunsets of my life at that lake on an early October backpacking trip several years ago. All the larch had already lost their needles but it was still an amazing scene.
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