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Hikers make the most of the longest day of the year

Hikers on Antoine Peak, a Spokane County Conservation Futures acquisition in the Spokane Valley, at sunset during summer solstice 2011.  (Rich Landers)
Hikers on Antoine Peak, a Spokane County Conservation Futures acquisition in the Spokane Valley, at sunset during summer solstice 2011. (Rich Landers)

HIKING -- Several groups of hikers celebrated the summer solstice by trekking to the top of Antoine Peak after work and hiking down into the sunset.

Antoine is a Spokane County Conservation Futures acquisition that forms the green mountain backdrop north of East Valley High School.

An 8.5-mile round trip from the new Lincoln Road parking lot-trailhead put us on the top of the peak for great views of Mount Spokane to the north and the Spokane Valley and Mica Peak to the south.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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