When there's still snow in the mountains and spring is coming alive on the surrounding hills, evening walks are a good way to spend a little time in nature. It's the simple things that help you get through the week, walk off a little stress and just enjoy the beauty of the evening light. This particular evening there wasn't a lot of flowers involved, it was more about catching the evening light moving through the fresh aspen leaves that were whirling in the breeze and lighting up the small flowers that covered the hills. Off in the distance the coyotes howled and played as the sun dipped behind the mountains. Beautiful way to end the day, enjoying the last rays of sunshine and walking the hills I call home.
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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