Pictures



	Patty Hruby & Ron Boninger offer this photo of the moon over Badger Mt, September, 2011. They say they recently moved here from Phoenix and "love climbing the mountain!"

	These three pictures come from Brittney Isdell of the YMCA of the Greater TriCities. The event was "Trick or Treat on the Trail" on Badger Mt on 10/29/11. Costumes, hiking, and trick-or-treating, what a great mix.

Dave & Pat Harris offer these three photos from 10/11/11, when members of the Fun Fit & Over Fifty Club went on a twilight hike.


Trailmaster Jim Langdon offers these photos as a sample of the many voluneteers who worked on the Badger trails this fall. On the left is a load of gravel coming up the hill in the Badger Tram. The second photo is volunteers from the Country Haven Academy. Third are volunteers on the Skyline Trail. The last photo is literally the last of the season -- the snow coming down signals the end of fall trail work.


Staying on the built trail keeps the mountain beautiful...so say volunteers Kent Richert and John Friley. Photo by Steve Ghan on 11/13/11.		Lisa Peterson snapped this one of the Cub Scouts from Richland's Pack 249 on Badger's summit, 5/9/11

	Trailmaster Jim Langdon reports: I presented a challenge to four frequent Badger Mountain hikers. There was a spot on the Canyon Trail that I needed to fix, but I needed 30 to 50 gallons of water to do the repair. Since they go up Badger most everyday, if each of them took up a gallon of water each time, I would get what I needed in a week or so. No, they had other ideas. They came up with a 275 gallon tank, filled it with water, and then drove it up to the top of the Canyon Trail, along with 1000 feet of hose. They strung the hose down the trail right to the spot I needed the water. See the picture to the left. Heat is not the reason that I don't do trail work in the summer. It's because the ground is so dry that after it is disturbed, it stays as a powder until the next good rain. We used most of the 275 gallons of water and rebuilt about 125 feet of trail. It was hot, hard work, but the day was very successful. The "water boys" were Don Pratt, Daryl Francis and Claude Oliver. My crew was Kent Richert, Pietro Martinelli and Mike Luzzo. They left their tank with me in case I want to do this again. You think maybe they want to stay home next time?

IT'S A REVERSE SUNSET! Or so it seems. It's the sunrise in the east, at 5:08 AM on 7/9/11. These three were taken by Gary & Janet Trump, on the Skyline Trail.


	Aerial tic-tac-toe, captured by Gene W. on Badger's Canyon Trail on 7/1/11	New to the Tri-Cities, this big happy dog, Red, and his sidekick, John, took to Badger Mt for the first time on 6/4/11.	And that's John, on the right. They both were impressed with the trails, the mountain, and the weather.


These four photos and the one below, were taken on Saturday June 4th, National Trails Day. REI sponsored a Badger Mt work party, and Friends of Badger Mt supported the crew with team leaders and tools. We had a good turnout of 25 volunteers, and REI brought shirts, snacks, and water for them. We made good progress on the Sagebrush Trail -- we finished raking to retrieve the gravel from off the edges of the trail. The clean-up work on the uphill edge of that trail is now done. We also laid more gravel on it. Big thanks to REI for all of their great support. David Comstock, FOBM President


June 4, National Trails Day on Badger Mt.		Two happy hikers, the Secrists were on Badger Mt on 6/4/11,	where they snapped this photo of wildflowers, still blooming.


Four scenes from the Badger Mountain Challenge on March 25 and 26, 2011. About 400 people particiapted in the 15 K, 50 K, and 100-mile events. From left to right, these photos were taken by Chris Ruby, Rusty and Miranda Bachman, Morgen Lefeber, and RT Dahowski. You'll find more photos of the Challenge at the Badger Mountain Challenge photos page.


Amy Hoyt offers these four photos. She took the first on 12/31/10, on the Skyline Trail, where her shadow and the patchy snow formed a Kodak moment (in this case, a Samsung moment). The llamas she saw on New Year's morning, also on the Skyline Trail. The third photo is a bit of fun - a snow sculpture Amy found on 1/1, and Amy's shoes, blended here into what could be art. The fourth photo is Amy's birth-day in 5/10, when her friends gave her a surprise party on the summit of Badger Mt, party supplies brought up in knapsacks. Thanks Amy!

Three more photos form 1/1/11. Thank you Natalia Mozhayeva.


Several hikers joined with members of I-MAC for their traditional New Year's Day climb up Badger Mt. One couple has been making this annual climb since 1948. Photo by Don Sommer, 1/1/11.


At the right is a photo of the 25 acres that Friends of Badger Mt added to the Badger Mt Preserve early in 2010. The land is on the south side of the Preserve, below the towers, and borders the orchard at the bottom of the slope. The photo was taken by Steve Ghan on 1/25/09.

Brittney Isdell, of the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Cities, sent these three photos of a hike they organized up Badger Mt. for Halloween, 2010. Those raucous smiles seem to indicate a lot of fun on the trail.

	The photo to the left shows Little Badger Mountain. It was taken by Clark Romine on October 13, 2010, from their house in Meadow Springs, a bit south of Gage and Bellerive. Click it to see the larger version, and you'll see what's crawling around on top. Clark says "It's the day that all of us lovers of Little Badger and unobstructed ridgelines have dreaded. We now have to look at the beautiful fall sunsets through a line of construction equipment on the skyline."

The Badger Mt. preserve was established in 2005, but people were hiking up the mountain for recreation long, long before that. Howard Gardner took these two photos on a Sunday I-MAC outing on March 9, 1952. In the first one, his wife Dorothy is hiking up Badger, with the parking area seen below, more or less where Trailhead Park is today. The second photo shows Dorothy hiking back down a gully. Thank you, Gardners, for this look back.

These three photos were sent in by Doris Fiske. Taken over several years on Badger and nearby areas with a Nikon D-50.

			Beth Watson took these three photos on her first climb up Badger on 7/1/10.

Here are three taken by Susan Painter in June, 2010. She says that's a sagebrush mariposa lilly, a butterfly (some sort of frittilary), and a horned lark.

			These three photos were taken by Alexander Peppe in mid-June, 2010. He was visiting the Tri-Cities from Maine and discovered the joys of hiking on Badger. You can visit his Web site to learn more about him and his trip.

Harold Carlson took these two on 5/14/10. The first is a wide panorama made from two photos, looking north. The second is looking east


Looking west, taken by Nikki Perry on her cell phone, 4/13/10	Yellowbells This and the next two taken by Mac Connor in March 2010.	Bluebells	A Robinson's onion

Becky Bechtold took these two photos of wildflowers in spring, and a very bold western meadowlark, who posed on the sign in the Canyon Trail parking lot on 3/2/10.


The full moon rose at 6:19 on 2/28/10, about 40 minutes after sunset. The first three pictures here were taken by Gene Weisskopf, who sat with his camera steadied on his knee, using the 2-second timer so his finger wouldn't jiggle the camera (Tip: Tripods for nighttime photos). The fourth one was taken by Carol Gurwell, at about the same time. She saw a couple dozen people on Badger gazing at the moonrise.


These two photos were snapped by Ann Whitemarsh on 2/26/10. Was it the clouds that made her reach for her cell phone?		Claude Landes took these two photos at sunrise on 10/2/09. He said this was his first climb up Badger since the trails were built.


On 10/6/09, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Benton and Franklin Counties brought a van-load of boys to hike up Badger Mt. The day was breezey but warm, perfect for hiking. Jim Langdon and Gene Weisskopf of Friends of Badger Mt accompanied the hikers, along with Vida Thomas of R.E.I. In fact, "trailing behind" might be a better description -- the boys chased up to the summit mostly on their own. None of these photos managed to capture all of them at the same time!

The next five collage images were taken by David Comstock on the fund-raising "Hike for Hunger" on 5/16/09. It was a warm, beautiful day, with plenty of wildflowers and plenty of hikers -- organizers of the hike said that 127 hikers made the journey over the mountain to the Dallas Rd trailhead, and donated $2150 to Second Harvest Tri-Cities. There was also one big rattlesnake, who proved to be more photogenic than threatening, but was still a reminder that Badger Mt. is a nature preserve. You can read more about Second Harvest here.




Badger Mountain was awash in wildflowers on 5/9/09, when Andrew Rakowski took these five photos.


These four photos were taken by Kathleen Smith on a hike up the Canyon Trail on 4/19/09, with her sisters Nancy and Lynn, and her niece Mariah. Kathleen says they have taken to hiking Badger on a daily basis for the fun, fresh air, and exercise "Our thanks to FOBM for making and maintaining such a wonderful trail."

These three photos, and the work crew photos, below, were taken by Gene Weisskopf. His only regret is that he sometimes goes up Badger without a camera.
	Sunset behind Mt. Rainier, 4/21/09	A wind turbine tower makes its way west on I-182 under cloudy skies, 4/10/09	So what are these Lake Lewis markers on the Canyon and Skyline Trails? Isn't the nearest lake 800 feet below us? 2/27/09

Our volunteer crews maintain the trails. Here they're using our "Grillo Dumper 507," affectionately known as the "Badger Buggy," to pick up more rocks for trail maintenance.
	Our volunteer trail crews really appreciate the Badger Buggy. 3/13/09	Trail maintenance on the Canyon Trail, 3/13/09	The trail crew and the Buggy head up the Canyon Trail. 3/19/09

These three photos were taken on 1/17/09, after several days of frozen fog. A beautiful and wintry scene. -Becky Bechtold-
	This part of the trail was a bit slick with mud and frozen mud.	The grass was embedded in frosty layers of frozen fog.	The chain-link fence by the radio towers had many layers of frozen fog clinging to it.


Clark & Pam Romine watched the moon set over Little Badger as the sun set to the west. 8/8/08		Little Badger viewed from Columbia Pt, Richland -John Roberts-	Little Badger viewed from Columbia Pt, Richland -John Roberts-

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View of the ridges we hope to preserve (Google Earth)	Little Badger viewed from the west	Little Badger viewed from the east	View to the west rom Badger on the summer solstice, 2008 -Gene Weisskopf-
The following 7 photos were taken by David Comstock on a May Day hike on Badger's Skyline trail