Eagle Creek Wildflower
Hike
Sunday, May 20, 2002
Scott and Ellen hike the Eagle Creek
Trail in the Columbia Gorge, in the rain.
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Ellen had just figured out how to use the "macro" setting
on the digital camera.
Here is Blue Eyed Mary.
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A sunny slope covered with Lupine and Desert
Parsley.
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Scott has that great Northwest Look down.
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Punchbowl Falls, from above. We didn't walk down to it this time,
but below
is a snapshot from another visit.
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(Actually, this photo of Punchbowl Falls is from a hike
we took in April, 1978!)
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A little brook tumbles toward Eagle Creek.
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Scott always likes the high spot.
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Vanilla Leaf, near where we ate lunch.
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We ate our lunch perched on rocks by the water's edge.
Did I mention it was raining? Scott found us a dry place
to sit in the concavity of the stone bank.
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The rain made this river rock glisten like a bronze Henry Moore
sculpture.
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Monkey Flower
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Western Saxifrage nestled in mossy rocks.
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Close up! Gotta love that macro lens.
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Shooting Star
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Licorice Ferns among the moss and lichens (and spider webs) on
the basalt.
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Red Paintbrush
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One section of the creek runs through a narrow, steep-walled gorge,
and the trail crosses here. That's Ellen on the bridge.
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Looking north from the bridge up the narrow Eagle Creek gorge.
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Looking south from the bridge.
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The cliffs to the east, lit for a too-brief moment by the sun.
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Looking back at the bridge from the bend in the trail.
Scott took this shot as Ellen hiked along the precipitous trail,
above on the left.
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Eagle Creek makes a nearly square corner, and so does the trail
above it.
![](335Waterfall.jpg)
The map doesn't seem to offer any name for this triple falls on
a tributary creek.
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A little Larkspur in the fading daylight.
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