Being fairly new to mountain biking, finding a trail to ride after a long days work can be a challenge. Finding a trail that is close to work, not to challenging, having enough time to get there after work and squeeze in a decent ride before dark can be interesting. I found that the Sun Mountain trails provide all of thee above, plus they are beautiful and have plenty of spring wildflowers to enjoy. The trail system makes it easy to plan your ride according to your skill level and enjoy natures beautiful landscape. Truly a wonderful way to end a work day. Great way to pedal your troubles away.
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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