Saturday Outing



 

We left the freeway & drove the old hiway up the valley past the TEAPOT DOME GAS STATION.  Adondo knew of a shelter cave near the headwaters of the Naches where the creek looped into the cave & ran down a narrow slit in the rocks.  Through the slit & down the canyon seemed a good hike. But when we got there, we found they'd made a park of it & it was 5 bucks to get in.
curmudgeon at a tourist trap
Leave the designated trail?  Who, me?
If this was a shelter cave, the roof leaked
troglodyte emerges
looking downstream
more of the slot
That doesn't look like very good footing  Rather than bust my butt, I'll do it on purpose and...
...enjoy the ride.
We're almost out of the crevasse
We went down the creek a ways, then looped back to the car in time to hear a tree come down.  Back up the "designated trail" to see it, but it didn't get anyone, so we left to go fishing.
Adondo got the first fish, which was back in the creek long before we stopped laughing

I thought sure there'd be something under that grassy bank that would be interested in my fly.  Nope.  No bites 'til I was out in the sun

Later, we stopped to look at prehistoric rock paintings near Yakima.

Will your "Sear's Best" paint be around in ten thousand years?
The present day Peoples don't know the origin of these.  The scholarly types have numerous conjectures, and NOTHING to base them on.

Since people are people the world over, I wonder if this is a 10,000 year old graffiti

"Kilroy was here"

Running Doe gives good h......



 
What a few thousand years of erosion can do

 
 
As we neared the Tri-Cities, there was a wild fire on the rim of the Horse Heaven Hills, so we pulled off to watch
It was fairly stable 'til just after dark, then it took off.
When the fire started moving, it grew this much while we were cocking the cameras.  These pix are a bit blurry because the fire is moving too fast for the slow shutter speeds.
The isolated dot is a fire truck trying to get the hell out of Dodge.
He made it, he's out of the smoke and gas
And there you have it.  1200 acres gone in 15 minutes.


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