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[takesiteasy]

I believe the BIG gulley which the road (Old Vantage Highway) runs along is the Frenchman Coulee, that is where you were camping under the "feathers" which I saw you took a picture of. There are short climbs on those. You gotta hike up and over the ridge into Echo Basin (to the south) where most of the developed climbing is on the columns. No road access to Echo.

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Found this aerial image online which confirms what you are saying:



We camped in the small depression to the left of the road. The "feathers" separate that area into two sections in the photo- we were in the upper one. We never made it into Echo Basin. The Columbia River is at the top. I believe the photo is looking more or less southwest. Anyway, it is a very interesting area. I will revise the titles on the pictures in the gallery. Thus ends my short hijack of this thread.

[pods8]

Yeah that is area I've usually camped in as well. Are the potta potties still there? Those were always varying degrees of usable or not depending if crowds from the gorge amphitheater were also using the area recently.

Yes that photo is looking southwest. To get into echo basin you hike up a trail near the bed in the road (below the s in Basin), then head south and drop through a slot canyon right about where the E is in Echo.

[takesiteasy]

Yeah that is area I've usually camped in as well. Are the potta potties still there? Those were always varying degrees of usable or not depending if crowds from the gorge amphitheater were also using the area recently.

No toilets of any kind when we were there but I saw online that the state has given permission to a climbers advocacy group to construct a vault toilet. The group is raising money now. It is clearly needed- it looks like the area gets a lot of use. It would be fun to hike into Echo Basin some day but I don't know when we will get back there.

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