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Photos: Hiking Mount Baldy

Reaching the top of Mount Baldy on a Sunday afternoon, a group of children posed for a photo alongside the American flag posted there and then promptly asked a chaperoning mother/iPhone photographer what was on the menu.

Turns out orange slices, cookies or snack bars -- tasty treats though they are -- aren't absolutely necessary for a snack on the roughly 3,280-foot summit.

Nature provides, and its candy was just seconds away.

Just past Mount Baldy's small, flat summit overlooking the community of Eagle River, and to the left of the ridge trail that continues toward Black Tail Rocks and Round Top, the tundra was dotted with a bounty of blueberries.

READ MORE: Hiking Mount Baldy in Eagle River

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