Lost In The Right Direction

The rock wall on the Whistler Canyon Trail in the Okanogan Highlands is really fascinating....the mountain is covered in different rock formations.....but the wall is pretty impressive and displays lots of color....From here on up the trail we saw lots of moose tracks and droppings...pretty fresh....should be a great place to see some moose...Spring has arrived pretty fast and furious to the valley floor in the last few days....the balsam roots...Sunflowers...are starting to show color....I saw several clumps of shooting stars on the way home from work yesterday.....I hope I get a chance to stop and take pictures before they burn out....we are supposed to get some nice 72 degrees weather by Sunday....that should speed up the melting process of the remaining snow and start pushing some flowers....I am ready to start some serious hiking....might need to get just a tiny bit more serious about a good pair of hiking shoes for the season....Hope everyone has a wond

While we were up in the area hiking Whistler Canyon Trail, near Oroville we decided to take a side trip and visit the Enloe Dam....WARNING.....The road down to Enloe Dam requires a high clearance vehicle....we did make it in a Chevy Equinox....but I would not recommend it...SCARY....and hard on the nerves....Without good directions and a confusing map we got turned around in Oroville...figured our our location and headed towards the Simiklameen River....Beautiful river....green in color and winds its way through the valley....Enloe Dam Road is well marked with a sign on the right...road on the left...the first section is not terrible....the bottom section I would not do again in anything but a 4x4 rig.... explored the trail that follows the river down past the dam towards the power house.....very nice place to visit...it is really to bad the road is in such terrible shape....I would imagine that it gets its fair share of people that stop and sight see....from there we continued up t