Ancizan! I really loved this pass.

I think Scott’s got it this time. The photo doesn’t show the height but campanula is the correct size and habitat.

Maybe balloon flower?
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/141623-Platycodon-grandiflorus/browse_photos?place_id=6753

Well, that’s freaky. It looks just like a flower I was about to post myself. They’re both campanulas (bellflowers), though google Lens thinks they’re different species. It thinks yours is a campanula patula and mine (a darker, lavender shade) is a campanula poscharskyana.

Speedwell

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51611-Veronica/browse_photos?place_id=6753

What I call cleavers. Fun to reach down, snatch a piece and toss it onto someone, where it sticks, but is easily removed, starting a cleavers war... :-) Fun on a Scout hike! Kind of not so fun later in the season when the seeds stick to your socks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galium_aparine

Looks like creeping globe daisy photos

https://www.gardenmyths.com/globularia-repens-creeping-globe-daisy-dwarf-globe-flower-and-globularia-nana/

Yay Scott!

Good enough. Woodruff, another flower I’ll have to start keeping n eye out for.

There were some stickers on summit signs in 2016, but not as many. You see them on chairlift towers at ski resorts too. As long as manufacturers and retailers continue to hand then out, people are going to stick them on things.

He usually realizes pretty quickly when he misses turns because Garmin will tell him. I rarely have the navigation running but it’s easy to see when my little marker is no longer on the course so I catch my my missed turns quickly too.

That’s almost exactly how we got separated one day way back c 1990. Now we leave our bikes visible if we’re not riding together.

Thanks, Scott! I used to know a lot more (BC) wildflowers when I did a lot of hiking, but I’ve forgotten so many.

Since you mentioned it in the narrative I might as well include a link to that day, which was probably our most frightening day traveling together: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/girona2014/layover-in-saint-girons/#3254_1918997_hs26zh_image

Also, a synopsis. We got separated when Rachael stopped for a nature brake and hid her bike from the road for security, not thinking I’d be along for awhile. I passed her without realizing it, and we spent the next four hours playing ‘who’s in front?’. I reached the summit, waited there for awhile, and then decided she must have kept going for some reason so I dropped off the other side after her. When I got to Aulus and didn’t find her there I turned around and climbed back up. So I climbed the ‘easier’ side, and then climbed most of the way back up the harder side before we finally found each other. Terrible. Rachael still remembers sitting by the road bawling her eyes out at one point.

Here’s our summit shot, from a decade go: no stickers! They must be a fairly recent craze.