Popular Trips in Puget Sound
A little flight before the Pineapple express hits the area. Merry Christmas everyone.My first attempt at sky writing. Plotted out way points on the GPS at major points of the letters and flew around them. Experimental Aviation Association (EAA.org) wrote about this trip. Click here. to read article.
My fraternity brother Charles took a weekend trip to Seattle. He and I went on a fantastic beautiful day-hike to Marmot Pass in the Olympic National Forest.
Started at Marymoor Park, rode north along the Sammamish River Trail, then continued along the Burke-Gilman Trail to Kenmore. Came south down Juanita Drive into Kirkland (climbing Big Finn Hill - aptly named!), continued along Market and Lake Streets with nice views of Juanita Bay and Lake Washington, and finished the route along the SR-520 Trail (with nice views of the highway...) back up to Marymoor Park. Although it was the 4th...
Started down Bus Trail, then down High School Trail and back up it. Crossed over to Adventure Trail, then back to the car on Powerline Trail.
Just a short day hike up Gold Mountain with some friends. Our trip took +/- 4 hours and we went around 6.3 miles. Awesome views to the West of Olympic Mountains and the Puget Sound.
This takes you down the heavily wooded Sequalitchew Creek Canyon trail, a former narrow gauge railroad grade that was used to transport dynamite to a wharf on Puget Sound; you hear the babbling creek on your way, if you are lucky you may see ravens, owls, or a blue heron. Once you get to Puget Sound take the beach, “at a minus tide” to the jetty & at the end of the jetty...
My favorite loop run in West Seattle, plenty of nature to take your mind off your lungs.
Memorial Day Camping trip with the South Sound Area Kayakers. We shared the island with a million other people including 30 fairly well-behaved sea scouts.
There is acutally three trips here. 2.2 miles out to the island from Southworth, 4.4 around the island later that day, and 4.2 on the way home. Good luck seeing any of that in the track since they overlap quite a bit.
Finally, the Big Red Weather Switch has been pulled in the Pacific Northwest and summer has returned. As if on cue, on July 5th our 10-day forecast magically switched from incessant clouds and rain to incessant sun. But I'm ok with that.
This ride traces a 60-mile loop around the shoreline of Lake Washington. It follows a mix of trails and city streets, and keeps to mostly residential but still very scenic areas....
After having spent the last few weeks road biking, I was starting to miss the regional off-road trails. So, back to the hybrid and a couple of my favorites - the Tolt Pipeline and PSE Powerline Trails. These are two east-west gems that cut across the Redmond Ridge, running largely from the Sammamish River on the west to the Snoqualmie Valley on the east. It's mid-summer now, so the trails are kind...
