One of my favorite things to do after a days work is take an evening stroll through fields of wildflowers. As the flowers start to bloom I try to spend as much time outside as possible, soaking in all the beautiful wildflowers that grow around us. For some flowers the season is really short and enjoying them in all their splendor requires getting outside a few evenings a week. Spring seems to come and go so swiftly on our dry hills. It's always fun trying to locate new places to explore that have an abundance of wildflowers.
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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