Other plants include Alpine aster " Aster alpinus ", edelweiss " Leontopodium alpinum " and white mountain avens " Dryas octopetala ".
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Late May is the sunniest time, and also likely the best time to view flowers, with the gentians and avens peaking ( but orchid species blooming later ).
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Following a number of months of digging and blasting, the link was made in 1996 at the top of the Cowsh Avens Series, a climb above Sump 4.
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The work of hydraulic erosion on limestone has created " avens " ( sinkholes ) including at least one with a specific name : the Aven de Goutin.
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The opening of Boxhead Pot in 1995 which entered down the second of the NPC Avens at the top end of Lost Johns'Cave provided relatively easy access to the area.
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The top edges of the canyon and far points of the inlet are hosts to only a few species of the fiercest of pioneer plants; alders, dwarf fireweed, willows, mountain avens.
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If not free-climbable, avens can be ascended by means of a bolt climb, where a caver places an ascending series of bolts in the walls and gradually ascends to the top.
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Below that a deep spacious shaft descends to the bottom of one of the two NPC Avens at the top end of Lost Johns'Cave ( Lost Pot enters from the second aven ).
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To 17000 BC the area was finally free of ice, and soon first pioneer plants settled, such as dwarf birch and mountain avens on, typically for a post-glacial tundra landscape.
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In the autumn of 1994, Northern Cave Club cavers found an open and unstable hole in a shakehole, which they descended to land at the bottom of the NPC Avens in Lost Johns '.
