Black Canyon
May 04, 2006
by
Mark, Sue and Emmie
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last modified
Sep 10, 2008 02:38 PM
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Black Canyon
- Region: Eastern Washington -- Yakima
- Agency: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Avg Rating: 4.40
The flowers are doing pretty well in the Yakima Canyon area where we camped. Following the directions in Desert Hikes in Washington, Hike 7, we easily found our way to the end of the road trailhead of Black Canyon. Plenty of flowers and birds. Windy. Ate lunch on Umtanum Ridge then followed it west as drawn in the guidebook. The first road left off the ridge (about 1.5-2 miles) leads back to the main trail but isn't a great walk-less scenic and rockier. About half way down we got rattled by a snake. Could only see his rattle shaking and didn't want to get much closer. A rewarding day.
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