Jason Addy – “Stillwater Bluffs and Alpine travels”

Devil’s Club plant. Bane of bushwhackers, medicine of Salish peoples.
– J. Addy

Super toxic plant, Helebore, unless you have the skill to make it a super important medicine, like most Salish nations pre-contact.
– J. Addy

Welcome to the alpine, the Rainbow Range. Between Powell Lake and the Eldred Valley.
– J. Addy

Indigenous Salish people’s prized meat and garment. Beartooth (kwɛyʔməmɩn) Mountain goat.
– J. Addy

Ptarmigan
– J. Addy

Tla’amin map of place names with obvious gaps in knowledge of the alpine environment. Not because there was no knowledge, but because it was lost, with a culture and a people.
– J. Addy

kwɛyʔməmɩn mountain. Where the ancestors of all Tla’amin peoples were saved from a great flood of the past. (it looks like a bears tooth).
– J. Addy

Looking east from our high camp
– J. Addy