March 11, 2018: Lower Deschutes River (Sherman County, Oregon)

This was a bike ride, not a hike: about 11 miles up the Deschutes River and back. Four months later, the entire valley was burned black by the Substation Fire; it might look a little different in the future.
feral almond tree
Rattlesnake Rapids
gold stars
Gordon Ridge Rapids
old wooden railroad car
fiddleneck
fern-leaf desert parsley
ghost of a kitchen
ridge south of Harris Canyon
Harris Canyon Water Tower
spring whitlow-grass
blue mustard
basalt cliffs above the Deschutes River
annual bedstraw (cleavers)
pungent desert parsley
deer skull
balsamroot
sagebrush buttercup
small-flowered blue-eyed-Mary
fern-leaf desert parsley
long-leaved phlox
prairie star
black-billed magpie
Colorado Rapids
folded basalt columns
folded basalt columns
Deschutes River
long-leaved phlox
yellow bell
feral almond tree

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