And that's Hellroaring Plateau on the upper right.
We started hiking around. Very cool country there. We started noticing these troughs scattered around the area and figured they were dugouts for miners. We passed a mining entrance on the way up. Silver? Gold? Don't know, but these dugouts were cool.
Some were small, possibly the sleeping areas. A couple were larger, likely a cooking area and a gathering area. Here's Michael standing in the largest one.
The area was very pretty. We found pretty trails, rocks, canyons...likely named Hellroaring for the sound of the wind through the canyon.
The collage shows some of the wildflowers we enjoyed, a photo of the mine entrance, and a beautiful gorge, and me, posing...cheese!
Then we had to go back down...
2 comments:
Nice post! Is it this year your going to hike in WA for your anniversary? Its coming right up!
Well, Michael plans to climb Mt. Rainier in July. I plan to go along and visit my sister, Karen, and hope he doesn't kill himself...;-)
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