RHH's photos with the keyword: sitka mountain ash

The Sitka Mountain Ash were just changing color, both leaves and berries, the leaves to an orange-yellow and the berries from green to red, when we hiked the Railroad Grade trail on the south side of Mount Baker. They are one of the highlights of autumn in the North Cascades.

Sitka Mountain Ash, a small tree or shrub, provides much of the autumn color in the Cascades. This examle was photographed along the Chain Lakes trail near Iceberg Lake.

Hiking in the mountains in autumn is colorful but the color is provided not by trees but by shrubs and ground cover, blueberries, sedges, vine maples and this plant, the Sitka Mountain Ash. This example was photographed along the Galena-Chain Lakes trail near Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan in the North Cascades.

Taken while hiking with Tim last August on a rainy day. We hiked a good part of the Lake Ann trail near Mount Baker and found plenty of subjects to photograph in spite of the rain and bad weather.

Tim and I were hiking the Lake Ann trail on a very wet day when this was taken. We saw nothing of the mountains around us that day and almost turned back at the trailhead, but found the hike interesting and worthwhile in spite of the wet day. These, I believe, are the berries of Sitka Mountain Ash after they've been touched by frost and have startted to fall.

The Sitka Mountain Ash, Sorbus sitchensis, is more a shrub than a tree but it provides brilliant autumn color, with its red berries (all fallen here) and its changing leaves. This photo was taken on the trail up to Heather Pass when hiking there several weeks ago with my wife.

Mountain Ash, wild Blueberries, and Sedges make most of the color in this photo which was taken on the way up to Heather Pass in the North Cascades.Further up the Larches would add their own bright yellow to the mix.

I believe this is a branch of Sitka Mountain-ash, a shrub-like plant that has white flowers in spring and red berries in autumn. This branch, however, has been touched by frost and the berries are purple and shriveled and the leaves, too, have withered. I photographed this along the Lake Ann trail when hiking there with my brother.