Exploring the bluffs above our camp at sunset.
Not far from our camp is Northrup Canyon."Northrup Canyon is perhaps the most pleasant hiking place in the Grand Coulee area, for its scenery, history, and roughly 3,000 acre sanctuary of plant and wildlife habitats. It’s a one-of-a kind lowland oasis rimmed by scenic cliffs of basalt and granite with pine woods, aspen groves, fields and meadows, Northrup creek and its riparian wetlands, and Northrup lake, all of it surrounded by desert and irrigated farmland. An idyllic homestead site with its hay field is located in the middle of the canyon, and an old wagon road—the former road between Almira and Bridgeport used for stage coach and freight wagons -- is there to explore."
We had a picnic lunch at the homestead, and explored the old farm buildings. Lots of rattlesnakes here, in the rocks. 
Later in the week a few of us hiked Steamboat Rock, which had a phenomenal vista of the water diverted by the Grand Coulee Dam.
Taraz and I on the top of the bluff, a broad, flat plateau offering stunning views across the scablands of coulee country.
Within the first few hundred yards, the trail becomes very rough and steep for about 0.15 mile as it runs up through a slot in the cliffs. This cairn was built about half way up the trail. Annie was carrying Daniel in a backpack, and had to turn back. It was just too steep and dangerous for her. Daisy turned back, too - it was hot. Mai and Ben completed half of the hike, to a viewpoint, then turned back.
