"Our first time over to the Blue Mountains, and what a great area. At least where we were there were more mountain goats (15 or so) than people (2). We drove up to the Twin Lakes Trailhead and made our way up to the lakes. Beautiful meadows after emerging from the forest, and the lakes themselves were fantastic. The two people we saw all day said there were trout in the lake and had been doing some fishing. Headed up the switchbacks to the Elkhorn Crest trail, right before Elkhorn Peak and made our way over to Rock Creek Butte. We cut over more on the South slope than the Southwest Ridge, which was shorter, but required some Class 3/4 scrambling which was fine and fun. Fantastic views from the top to the east, but west was pretty hazy (marine layer/fires?). With the boys, we didn't quite have it in us to do Elkhorn Peak as well, so we just cut straight down to Upper Twin Lake through a scree field, which saved a ton of time. GPS logged us at 6.5 miles to the summit of RCB. Overall, really a beautiful area and would to come back here and the Wollowas, too." — BryHong8 • Jul 16, 2017