View to Coyote Wall from the Mosier Plateau (bobcat)

• Hikes to this location:
  • Mosier Plateau Hike   (TH | <—   —> | LOG)

• Weather forecast: NWS/NOAA
• Maps: Oregon Hikers Maps Google Maps
• Latitude, Longitude: 45.6883, -121.3866
• Elevation: 320 feet

Description

The northern loop on the Mosier Plateau Hike crosses a scabland of Yakima Basalts blooming with wildflowers. The expansive views across the river take in a spread of the Washington Gorge, most immediately Coyote Wall, with its anticlinal cliffs corresponding to those of the Mosier Plateau, and the exposed basalt knolls of the Labyrinth.

Many people mistakenly refer to Coyote Wall as a syncline. In fact, a syncline is a depression caused by folding and here, the Mosier Syncline carries the Columbia River and then runs southwest through the town of Mosier. From this vantage point, you are looking at the syncline where the river is and the anticline, sometimes known as the Bingen Anticline, is the massive cliff of Coyote Wall across the river. At about 1,000 feet on Burdoin Mountain, where the Douglas-fir woods begin, is the high point of the Bretz Floods.

Links

• Syncline and Anticline (Friends of the Columbia Gorge)

Contributors

• bobcat (creator)