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Memorial Day Weekend at Pine Haven - Rattlesnake Mtn. Hike

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I took the kids up to Pine Haven (Wentworth NH) for "the usual" on the holiday weekend. After some moth-light drama (purchasing a replacement battery charger for the big 12V battery) I got that set up Friday and Saturday nights. Pictures from that will be forthcoming, but the bucket was less impressively successful than before, largely due to large June beetles disturbing the contents, and, the second night, me choosing a bad location where a breeze kicked up around dawn and sent the sheet snapping like a flag.

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Lanikai Pillbox Trail

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We hiked Lanikai Pillbox Trail (Kailua, HI) on Wednesday (11/12) which was sunny and altogether an excellent time (perhaps the least scary hike of the trip). I spent a good while chasing butterflies (while someone else geocached) and since it was hot, these were very active and not into keeping still.

After getting back to the hotel, I noted that since Hawaii has only 18 butterfly species, it's pretty trivial to identify them. In any case, this is a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae).

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Gulf Fritillary (upper view)
Gulf Fritillary (partial underwing view)

Olomana Trail

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Today Monty and I hiked Olomana Trail (Kailua, Hawaii) to the first peak. It featured the steepest and scariest rock scrambling I've ever done, high up, and enormous amounts of thick slippery mud, low down. The rest of our party (Nathan, Noah, Nadia) went on to peaks two and three, and possibly have better pictures, but for now I bring you a picture of a random rock pile, and a picture of some red flowers that I may manage to look up. We saw a bird that I later identified as a red-billed leiothrix, on the way down.

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Rocks, with a Monty for scale
Red flowers (no, I don't know what kind)

Mt. Jefferson

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I took Denton hiking over a week ago, and have been caught up in further end-of-summer amusements, and haven't finished editing photos from the last few outings. Anyhow, I'd meant to actually hike somewhere like actually hiking, and left George at home and took Denton up to New Hampshire for two nights and a real hike.

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