We hiked a loop route in Discovery Park , Perkins Ln , stairways including the Moving Stairway , and limited views to the Olympics , Puget Sound , downtown Seattle , Mt. Rainier and Queen Anne . The historic Discovery Park and Magnolia neighborhoods were enjoyable to hike.
Hamed and I were successful in brushing the route between the end of the old logging spur and to within 150 feet of the NF-4832-141 road. Given the time of day and tiredness of my arms from all the sawing work and the thicket of Devil's Club between us at the road -- we called it for this trip.
Great shoulder season loop scramble, especially on a clear day.
Quick, Steep and Quiet- Good for training.
Lovely, lovely trail, beautifully restored. We left from the Middle Fork TH and hiked 5 miles to the bridge at Cripple Creek, which has beautiful falls.
Fun and companionship and cold clear conditions and Western larches and Mountain Queers make for a good day out!
An early winter adventure on a beautiful clear day!
We had a lovely hike to Ollalie Creek Campground, which started with a wonderful short trip to the Grove of the Patriarchs, which includes a cool suspension bridge, and ended with a quick side trip to beautiful Silver Falls.
Seven nautical mile round-trip paddle along an historic section of coast at the northern end of Camano Island. This area was once a major logging community and home to the first shipbuilding operation in the Puget Sound region.
Trail was in relatively good condition. There were a few small downed trees on the trail from yesterday's wind storm. Watch for hanging branches toward the top.
A surprisingly pleasant shoulder season conditioner (~16 miles, ~5900’ gain), with added drama from an intimidating forecast that never happened. Gorgeous fall colors, treecicles (portmanteau of icicles and tree), plus much stoic cloud gazing.
We hiked to Susan Jane Lake , our destination . Views of Josephine Lake would have been impacted by storm activity . The Fall colors were beautiful in the berry areas.
Successful run -- despite gate being locked
Started at 8 AM, hiked to the summit. Returned to the cars by 2:30 PM
About a foot of new snow in the Headlight basin beyond the pass made navigation difficult since the trail was completely covered. Became more of a snow scramble than a hike. We reached the bottom of the basin past the grove of larches, but decided to turn around towards the part where the trail goes over rocky terrain and was not visible.
Beautiful fall scenery , sneaky first rock pitch