Wallowas: Thorp Creek, Hurwal Divide, Chief Joseph Mt.

[Don Nelsen]

John, thanks for the report and pics. I'll be heading up the Thorpe drainage to get to Sacajawea Mt. in four weeks if the weather holds.

Don

[texasbb]

@cfm: It's Alpine knotweed (Polygonum phytolaccaefolium). It's all over the Wallowas, but also in the Blue Mountains and Cascades, although less obvious there.

I was wondering what that was. It was, as you say, all over the Wallowas when I was there last September. It really does give the hills an amazing look.

[Eric Peterson]

I'll be heading up the Thorpe drainage to get to Sacajawea Mt. in four weeks if the weather holds.

Take me with, I want to tackle that thing again but this time use the BC Creek ridge trail that
looked like it might go all the way up to the ridge.

[Don Nelsen]

I'll be heading up the Thorpe drainage to get to Sacajawea Mt. in four weeks if the weather holds.

Take me with, I want to tackle that thing again but this time use the BC Creek ridge trail that
looked like it might go all the way up to the ridge.

Eric, I wish I could! I have to go to Spokane via a circuitous way seeing business customers on the way over a three day route. Still not sure my exact route - may try for Sac on the way up and try to tag the high points of Asotin, Garfield and Columbia counties on the way back or visa-versa. Anyway, altogether, it's a 50+ mile total hike and >10k vertical thing. I know you could do all of this but the scheduling is problematic.

Don h

[Eric Peterson]

It's cool Don, I was more or less joking

I figured you were making a business run and squeezing in
those awesome hikes during your travels...