Christmas was good...lots of good food...good cheer....but not so good weather.....we pretty much ate too much...which gave us excuses to stay close to home and warm.....the weather brought...rain...snow...rain.....rain and snow mixed...and melting snow.....rain...generally not the best stuff to venture out in.....and add some icy roads into the whole rain mixture and we decided to stay home....so we are looking forward to better...most likely colder weather this weekend to venture out in....the day before Christmas we had beautiful blue skys....I love living with a view of a mountain and a river or two.....so I hiked up the hill behind our house and shot a few frames of our little town and Billy Goat Mountain.....lovely view....no deer...was a little disappointed....The Methow River is pretty much froze up down here at the mouth as it empty's into the Columbia....but still a beautiful site....folks are starting to feel the chill in the air....so we have plenty of furnaces to fix in our parts....so I need to get the whip cracking and make these service techs chain up and get moving....
Echo Basin was our last early spring hike in the Eastern Washington area. We were planning to hike the Frenchman Coulee side that heads toward the waterfall but changed our mind due to the amount of cars parked at the trail head. So down the road just a little ways we went to hike the Echo Basin trail. Even with a early start the sun was way too bright, not hot, just bright. We hiked up the jeep trail that starts on the left hand side of the road as your facing the Columbia River. Didn't seem like a real exciting trail till we reached the sand dunes, which put us closer to the rock walls. Up and over the sand dunes and on up a goat trail to get above the walls. Without really knowing were we were going we just winged it. Lots of faint trails and trails in the sand, hard to know which was the true trail. The rock walls are huge and fascinating, the columns are even more interesting up close. We hiked until we had a view looking down into Echo Basin, and a nice look at th
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