Another trip to Blue Lake, still posting from 2014. I can't seem to get a lot of traction in my life and move forward. Seems like everything is moving at a warped speed and I'm standing still waiting for it all to slow down. With the 100 Degree weather happening this weekend, I am seriously considering staying home in the cool air and plugging away at my computer. I would like to state for the record, I have been out hiking, just haven't posted any pictures of recent hikes. We have had family and more family, funerals, weddings and all kinds of stuff happening and I want to just lay down and rest....but my mind and body wants to just go out and conquer another trail and get lost in the beautiful outdoors. So it's a struggle. This trip to Blue Lake Trail was a beautiful day. 2 of my nephews came along and my niece, all currently living in Oregon. This trail is really worth hiking, short, but beautiful. Early mornings are best to hike this trail, due to the amount of traffic on the trail as the day goes on. The photos of the wee deer are taken downtown Winthrop. We stopped for a coffee and a sweet treat at the Rocking Horse Bakery and watched the momma and twins explore. Beautiful site, so sweet.
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
New desktop backgrounds for me! (; That was a good day.
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