One of the things we discovered in our visit to the “Tri-Cities” (Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick) Washington is Sundays many things are closed, hiking trails, like in many locations are crowded. Learning that we stayed near our room on Sunday. Yesterday, Monday September 18, we visited Badger Mountain. Badger mountain has an elevation of 1,593 feet which is 1,000 feet higher than the location of our room. The weather was very tolerable, 75 degrees, with a nice breeze and low humidity. We only climbed to approximately 1,100 feet before returning to the parking lot. It wasn’t because we were tired but the way the trail went due to the steep climb it would have added a couple more miles to our walk and we had anticipated visiting a local winery, one of the other reasons we visited this area.
We arrived back at our car a bit before the winery was scheduled to open so we drove to “Horse Heaven” mountains and learned there was a recent fire which burned all the native grasses off the mountains. It was interesting, to say the least to see the area completely baren of plants.
As a “reward” for “climbing” the mountain we treated ourselves to wines and a snack. While we didn’t discover a huge number of things to do aside from hiking and wine, we found the area interesting for a couple of days. Tomorrow, we head towards Seattle and Whidbey Island.
Photographer Clay 
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