I am fixing to hit the road again....do this road trip all over again....this time I get to meet my new nephew....can't wait to hold him but I dread the hours once again on the road....I am going to see if I can convince my riding partners to make a stop and visit a waterfall on the way back home....maybe hike up to it...that way I can at least say I hiked in Oregon this year....at this rate I might be better off making more plans to hike in the Oregon area since I will be going that way several times....hopefully the weather is as good this weekend as it was during our last visit....rains not my thing.....I am sure if the weather is good I can spend my time taking more pictures up and down the Columbia Gorge...give me even more pictures to fill up my hard drives with....I think I will load up a pile of hiking books and entertain my riding partners with all the places I think we should hike and at the same time maybe I can convince them to take a scenic route on the way back likewise....nothing like adding an extra hour or two to a 8 hour drive....we shall see how this goes over...
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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