Monthly Archives: April 2009

Ancient and Dusty Lakes Loop

After reading recent trip reports of the area, I decided to head over to the sunshine of Eastern Washington and the Gorge area to do a loop hike around the Ancient Lakes and Dusty Lake area. Trip was about 10 miles but felt a little longer do to scrambling around on the rocks by the …

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Umtanum Canyon and Ridge

On this first real warm spring day this year, I drove to Eastern Washington to the Yakima Canyon and parked at the Umtanum Creek Recreation Area parking lot. I intended to hike to the top of Umtanum Ridge and also hike the canyon as far as I could but I cut the canyon hike about …

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