THREE HIKING SISTERS, we love to hike together, but we don't all live in the same state. Sometimes it is only two of us, and sometimes we hike with others. This is a record of some of our hikes.
Monday, June 23, 2025
Sacajawea State Park
We stopped at Sacajawea State Park in the TriCities Area of WA, this is located where the Snake and Columbia Rivers meet. 
Looking upriver along the Columbia
Confluence of the Snake River (left) and the Columbia River (right)
a small harbor at the park along the Snake River side
Pelican flying above us
We saw milkweed in bloom near the small harbor
McNary National Wildlife Refuge
We stopped to walk a small portion of the McNary Wildlife Refuge in the TriCities area of WA. We parkd at the Madame Dorian Boat Launch and followed a fisherman's trail along the Walla Wall River before heading up the horse trail over to and along Smith's Harbor for a short ways. Views of the Walla WAlla River. 
Views of Smith Harbor 
We saw pelicans and egrets flying over the water, and some in Smith Harbor, here are two blurry zoom photos
We saw a few wildflowers along the way
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Umatilla Rim Trail
This afternoon as we were driving across the Blue Mountains on Hwy 204 in NE Oregon, we decided to find a trail where we could stretch our legs. We decided on the umatilla Rim Trail in the Horseshoe Prairie Nordic Ski Area at 5,000 ft. We parked at the Horseshoe Prairie Trailhead and planned to hike out about a mile before turning around. Overall, we hiked 2.4 miles round trip with 230 ft of overall gain. We saw 4 bicyclist and no other hikers while we were on the trail.
This trail goes through a forest, for the portion we hiked, we did not see any views, but we saw lots of wildflowers
Some of the many different wildflowers we saw along this part of the trail:
Anthony and Hoffer Lakes
This morning, we drove up to Anthony Lakes in the Elkhorn Mountains of eastern Oregon to hike around Anthony Lake with a side trip up to Hoffer Lakes, 2.3 miles overall with 350 ft of elevation gain. Anthony Lake is at 7,100 ft, we had a little sunshine, then rain and snow for this summer hike in the mountains. It is beautiful!
We parked by the campground and hike clockwise around the lake. Views along the trail:
About 3/4 of the way around the lake, we took the 1/2 mile trail up to Hoffer Lakes, it follows along Parker Creek
The first Hoffer Lake
There were many log bridges over streams between the two Hoffer Lakes
The other Hoffer Lake
A waterfall at the end of the trail
some of the wildflowers seen along the trail this morning
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