A Wonderland of Larch: Autumn in the Bitterroot Mountains

[Mark Wetherington]

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

[Ryan Jordan]

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:

[Mark Wetherington]

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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