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| Alaska: landscape inspirations /
Ketchikan-Deer Mountain and devils-club plant
August 2005 wendy.north@btinternet.com |
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| 07/08/05 - Deer
Mountain. Not really equipped for a long walk we carry on up the
hill for a mile and reach the 1500 foot marker. On the way up we see
these strange looking plants and wonder what they are called. We
meet them again and again in the forests of South East Alaska.
The Devil's Club plant has been valued by native people for centuries for its range of medicinal uses. Beware its lethal spines though, for if they become embedded in the skin they will fester with very unpleasant results. Hemlock, spruce and cedar dominate the forests of Alaska. We were to experience hundreds of miles of this kind of forested landscape as we travelled along the coast. |