Saturday 14th October 2023
We went for a drive south to check out Electric City, Coulee City and Ephrata. All towns were pretty dead. Once again I am unsure how people live in these rural areas. There was barely a supermarket and with no out of town big box stores these cannot be blamed for the downfall of a town's commerce. Fun fact these towns may not have a decent grocery store or laundry but they will have a marijuana dispensary.
I have not been able to do laundry at this stop as there is not one at the park and the nearest is a 45 mile drive!
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| The road was blasted through the rocks |
Sunday 15th October 2023
I had been looking at Steamboat Rock all week and wanted to climb up it. All Trails hiking app billed it as a medium hike with 800 feet climbing. Ok we can do this. So we got kitted up and away we went.
The beginning was on sand so not too bad but then we hit a very sketchy path of soup tin size rocks (scree) that made the incline very hard to navigate. We soldiered on hoping that was the worst but turned a corner to see we needed to climb up a rock ledge then there was more scree.
This was feeling more like rock climbing and as we had Morgan with us and neither of us wanting her or us to get injured we decided to turn around. Instead we walked around the base of Steamboat to another area of the reservoir where we sat for a bit.
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| The very steep path |
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| We got about third way up, views were great. |
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| Can see the campsite |
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