Rowena Plateau and Tom McCall Point — Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2023

We had a windy hike today to Tom Mc Call point, and then to the furthest point on Rowena Crest. Flowers are blooming, the early spring ones, lots of grass widows, Columbia basin parsley, and glacier lilies on Tom McCall. On Rowena Crest the grass widows have gone to seed, but yellow desert parsley are in bloom, as well as numerous small saxifrages and tiny yellow daisies. We also saw a few shooting star. The weather varied from strong wind with sun, to strong wind with horizontal rain, to strong wind with small hail. I guess that's the Columbia Gorge! There was some mud, not bad. We saw one other party all day. We saw many raptors including a golden eagle, turkey vultures, red-tailed hawks (one was harassing the eagle. The balsamroot and lupine will be out in about 2 - 3 weeks if there is some warm weather, I'm guessing.