Rich Landers - Day hiking Eastern Washington: Kettles-Selkirks, Columbia Plateau, Blue Mountains

White Bluffs, Hanford Reach National Monument

Placid Swan Lake in the Okanogan Highlands

Looking toward the Pend Oreille River valley from Sherlock Peak ridge

Big Rock is prominent in the Dishman Hills Conservation Area.

Tall pines and firs silhouetted in evening light on the Shedroof Divide

Fawn hunkered in meadows on Clackamas Mountain

Palouse River careening through a basalt canyon

Blue Mountains forest fires scorched the edges of Middle Point Ridge.

Sunset at the Crowell Ridge trailhead below Sullivan Mountain Lookout

Theres gold in them thar hills (in October) in the Kettles.

DAY HIKING

Washington

KettlesSelkirks/Columbia Plateau/Blue Mountains

by Rich Landers
& Craig Romano

BUT WAIT! THERES MORE!

Still need more hikes? See the appendix in the back of this book for information about access to 25 more hikes including:

In the Okanogan Highlands:

McLoughlin Canyon

Island Park

Fourth of July Ridge

Ten Mile Trail

Long Lake

In the Kettle River Range:

Profanity Trail

In the Selkirk Mountains:

Pierre Lake Trail

Newport Wolf Trails

Halliday Trail

Silver Creek Trails

In the Columbia Plateau:

Umatilla Rock

Blythe and Chukar Lake

Saddle Mountain

Around Spokane:

McKenzie Conservation Area

Glenrose Conservation Area

Dwight Merkel Trail

Spokane River Centennial Trail

West Branch Little Spokane River Wildlife Area

Medical and West Medical Lakes

Columbia Plateau Trail

Sacajawea State Park

Badger Mountain (Waterville Plateau)

Odessa Craters

In the Palouse:

Lyons Ferry

Bill Chipman Palouse Trail

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2013 by Rich Landers and Craig Romano

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First edition: first printing 2013, second printing 2014

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Copy Editor: Julie Van Pelt
Book Design: The Mountaineers Books
Cover design and layout: Jennifer Shontz, www.redshoedesign.com
Cartographer: Pease Press Cartography
All photographs by authors unless otherwise noted.

Cover photograph: Gypsy Peak, Eastern Washingtons highest summit, as seen from the Salmo Divide Trail (Photo by Craig Romano)

Frontispiece: Copper Butte carpeted with wildflowers (Photo by Craig Romano)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Landers, Rich, 1953

Day hiking Eastern Washington : KettlesSelkirks, Columbia Plateau, Blue Mountains / by Rich Landers and Craig Romano.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-59485-494-1 (pbk)ISBN 978-1-59485-495-8 (ebook) 1. HikingWashington (State), EasternGuidebooks. 2. Washington (State), EasternGuidebooks. I. Romano, Craig. II. Title.

GV199.42.W2L36 2013

796.51097971dc23

2012042303

Maps shown in this book were produced using National Geographics TOPO! software. For more information, go to www.nationalgeographic.com/topo.

ISBN (paperback): 978-1-59485-494-1
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-59485-495-8

Working on Day Hiking Eastern Washington was fun, exciting, and a lot of hard work. I couldnt have finished this project without the help and support of the following people. A big thanks to my co-author Rich Landers for bringing me onboard. It has been an honor working with you. A big thanks too to all the great people at Mountaineers Books; especially publisher Helen Cherullo, editor in chief Kate Rogers, and project manager Mary Metz for allowing us to hike all over Eastern Washington!

I want to especially acknowledge once again, my editor, Julie Van Pelt. I have worked with her on all my Day Hiking books and I feel that we have hiked the state together. Your professionalism and attention to detail has greatly contributed to making this book a finer volume.