Hiking the Canyons

      Garnet Canyon, Paintbrush Canyon, and Hanging Canyon have all been beautiful in the past few weeks.  The trail up Hanging Canyon is a steep informal trail not listed on the maps at all. It must be a climbers access trail because I found it accidentally while chasing a woodpecker earlier in the season.
     Wild flowers have been spectacular.  Paintbrush in many colors, Bluebells, Sunflowers, Columbine, Penstemon, Monkeyflowers, Buckwheat is still blooming, Asters, Spirea, Red Heather, Monkshood, and more.
      This photo is Middle Teton from Surprise Lake.

Surprise Lake is one of those beautiful alpine lakes at the top of Garnet Canyon.

The trail is pretty also.

Snow melt cascades down each mountainside.

Teewinot and snow fields feeding the waterfalls and cascades.