Umtanum Creek Canyon — Saturday, Apr. 13, 2019

This trip report is for the canyon, not the ridge.  There was apparently some very nice work done last fall on the trail, where before it was a tangle of social trails with efforts made to find places to cross the creek.  There are some re-routes up into some scree to avoid some of that - you can follow the orange blazes most of the time.  Also, another project that was underway last fall was the deposition by some agencies of cut timber, dropped by helicopter, into the creek.  This is supposed to help fish habitat but the local beavers must have though Christmas had come early!  The logs are also helpful to find places to cross the creek.  No flowers really yet in the canyon but plenty of birds.  M & F Harrier Hawk, Great Blue Heron, Downy Woodpeckers, flickers, canyon wrens and Bewick's wren, turkey, stellar jays, to name a few.