We drove to the east side of the Columbia Gorge to hike up Coyote Wall via the Little Maui Trail and over to the Labyrinth Trail making a 7.6 mile loop with 1,560 ft of overall gain. Great day for wildflowers!
View of Coyote Wall from the trailhead:
Columbia River and Mt Hood to the south along the closed road to the Little Maui Trail.
View of the Columbia River to the east as we start up the Little Maui Trail.
views of Little Maui Falls as we continue up the trail
squirrel along the trailViews of the Columbia River and Mt Hood as we hike along Coyote Wall:
view up along Coyote Wall
and lupine,
more balsamroot as we got higher up the trail
zoom of Mt Hood
more views along Coyote Wall continuing up the trail
zoom of one of the several turkey vultures we saw today
We then took the Old Ranch Road over towards the Labyrinth Trail
small falls on a creek crossing 
Views going down the Labyrinth Trailzoom of Mt Hood
Labyrinth Falls
The only snake we saw was a gopher snake.some of the wildflower we saw along the trail today:
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