Umtanum Creek Canyon — Saturday, May. 26, 2012

Central Washington > Yakima

Lovely hike with the gorgeous canyon walls, easy creek crossings, birds and other wildlife to see (including some big horn sheep(?) up high on the canyon wall). The only down side was the incredibly large number of ticks on ourselves and the dog. Even after very careful inspections before we headed home, we kept finding more crawling on ourselves and in the car! There was a small fire about 2.5-3 miles up the canyon that looked like it had been started by lightning earlier. We helped Boy Scout troop 498 clear fuel away from the burnt out region around the tree that had been hit by the lightning and get some water on the flames.