Cerro de la Muerte

We ascended >3000 meters to Cerro de la Muerte, the highest point on the Costa Rican section of the Inter-American Highway. Here we saw an oak-dominated cloud forest, a páramo site, and a high-elevation bog, before returning to Alajuela for our flight home.

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oak forest at Cerro de la Muerte

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Professor Shepherd and David hard at work observing birds  

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Professor Shepherd with an Elaphoglossum fern, identifiable by its tongue-shaped leaf  

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botanizing in the bamboo (Chusquea sp.) understory of the oak forest

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fixing up a fallen bromeliad

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James settling a dispute with Professor Shepherd about his grade on the midterm

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at 3000 m elevation, pausing to re-oxygenate, on the trail below La Georgina Inn

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a tiny volcano hummingbird (right) vying for space at a busy feeder at La Georgina Inn

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Indian paintbrush (Castilleja sp.) in the páramo

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sadly, our last nature stop, a bog at 2500 m dominated by the bromeliad Puya and tree Blechnum ferns

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Las biologistas tropicales vuelven de la selva

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