Munra Point hike

My friends and I hiked up to Munra Point in the Columbia River Gorge today, a 6-mile hike with 2300 feet of elevation gain. It involved quite a bit of hand-over-hand scrambling and clambering, and ended at a knife-edge peak. It was amazing and fun - we had the perfect weather and it was really great to be out with my friends for the day.

 Elowah Falls, about a mile off the highway.

 A fairy rock in the middle of the stream.

Our group! Michelle, Adrienne, Michela, Anne, JT, Paula, Maya, Marin.

 One friend remarked that this slope of mossy rocks reminded her of the trolls in Frozen. :)

 Purple lupines, so pretty.

 First view of the Columbia River, looking westwards.

 Hamilton Mtn on the Washington side of the river.

 

 The scrambling upwards begins in earnest. We gained 2300 ft in about 2 miles.

 

Beacon Rock, across the river.

 
Up the "chimney" - it was fine to go up, but it would have been scary to come down without the rope that had helpfully been attached.

 

 Gaining the top of the ridge - you can see the people ahead of JT, up on the rock that is the summit.

 

 Looking back down on a few of my friends, from near the summit.

Scrambling up that final big boulder. It was a pretty good dropoff on three of the four sides.

 Looking northeast - that's Mt. Adams in the distance - with the Bonneville dam down below.

 

 

 

Anne couldn't resist taking a dip in the creek coming off Elowah Falls on the way back down.