Pictures


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.

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

Here's three taken by Susan Painter in June, 2010. She says thats 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	Umm, not sure yet.... (more flowers to come)

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 notes that 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