635. Mariposa of the Canyon Lady
a little "blue-cloaked surprise" in the "canyon of the penitents"

Find your way to Penitente Canyon either via La Garita from the north or Del Norte from the south. Continue through the campground to the trailhead at the end of the road. From the kiosk, go right past a pyramid rock to soon see the lovely blue cloaked figure high up on a rock face to your right. When you are almost parallel to it on the trail, the trail is squeezed left by a large long boulder extending about 12' directly along the right side of the trail. Near the beginning of where the boulder touches the trail, about 1' right under a tiny overhang with grass and bush remnants, look under a 2" triangular rock to find a 1" round stone with a butterfly on its back. Great solicitude is, of course, essential for its preservation.

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