Training Log Archive: JanetT

Model map at Moses Lake Sand Dunes SP. It was hot and sunny so I took it easy, at a slow walk, mostly to see how things were mapped. We'll see how it looks at a run tomorrow. Got a feel for what was mapped as green vs green-marsh vs light green, and don't think I would want to cross the green marshes unless it's way out of the way to avoid it. The rest of the area was pretty open with lots of small ups and downs to block your view. Herd paths were forming in the vegetation, in many places, and they may do so tomorrow too by the time we go out late in the start window. I won't go too crazy picking out all the seeds as I'll just get more tomorrow, I'm sure. :-)

Drove out from Spokane by way of Grand Coulee Dam (on the Columbia River) just to check it out. The dam is long (almost a mile from end to end; ~1650' of spillway) and 550' high, and there was a lot of water coming over it. Learned a bit about how the Coulee valley was formed. We stopped at Steamboat Rock, a large mesa in the middle of the valley (connected to land on one side, but otherwise surrounded by lake), where we ate lunch. There's a trail to access the top of the mesa, but we didn't have time to climb up (800' of climb in about a mile).