Honeymoon Bluff

Our second stop along the Gunflint Trail was the short hike up Honeymoon Bluff, 3/4 mile with 90 ft of elevation gain, overlooking Hungry Jack Lake in Superior National Forest.

some of the wildflowers and fungi we saw on this short trail

Snoqualmie Falls

We drove to the East Parking lot by the SAlish Lodge between Fall City and Snoqualmie to visit Snoqualmie Falls. After viewing the falls from Upper Viewpoints, we hiked down to the Lower Viewpoint. We were picked up at the lower parking lot, making our hike 0.7 miles with 350 ft of descent.

Pictograph Cave State Park

We stopped at Pictograph Cave State Park SE of Billings MT to hike the 0.75 loop trail to 3 caves (I would call them alcoves).  WE hiked the loop counterclockwise going to Pictograph Cave first.

We stayed on the main trail to avoid rattlesnakes. Another hiker who was ahead of us, told us he saw on one the trail that moved into the grass.

On of the rock formations along the loop.

Pictograph Cave is hidden by the trees and is hart to see until you are there. (This view is from across the loop).

This view is on the way to the cave.

We were able to find some of the red pictographs (the black pictographs only show up in certain weather conditions).

zoom of the pictographs we saw

This detailed pictograph was very faint and hard to see.

The main loop trail then goes through this nice shaded section.

On the other side of the loop looking at Middle (we didn't note anything there) and Ghost Caves.

Section of the rock wall between the two caves.

cool boulder

Looking up to Ghost Cave on the left

Rock formation to the left of Ghost Cave, seen on the side trail up to the cave.

Ghost Cave (I wonder if someone thought the boulders in the cave looked like ghosts)

The round boulders are concretions.

More views as we completed the loop.

We saw some wildflowers, I didn't get close to the ones in the grass (avoiding snakes).

 

 

Window Trail and Door Trail Badlands National Park

From the same parking lot, we hiked the Window Trail (0.25 miles round trip) and the Door Trail (0.75 miles round trip) in Badlands National Park.  As it was it was getting hot, we did not extend the hikes as it is possible to do here. The Window Trail is on a boardwalk. Views along this short trail:

We saw some cacti in bloom here.

Views along the Door Trail: