Last Friday At Squak

Last Friday was a beautiful day and the forecast for Saturday / Sunday was rain. I had a new database to install on Saturday anyway, so headed out of the office early for a rare after work hike.


A bogie classic, I think this stream would be a wonderful place for a quick sit down.


Trying my hand at a nature shot of this massive moss covered tree.



Kind of funny but you see lost hats like this on trails all the time.


Eight stumps all in a row.


Hard to see but there is a pretty cool little waterfall way in the back!


Trying my hand at some nature shots, this grove of trees looked amazing in the afternoon light.


Another cooling stream sit down break for Bogie.

Saturday At Iron Horse State Park

Last week I picked up a couple new trail books and have been itching to try out one of their listed hikes. So today's guide was "Day Hiking Snoqualmie Region" and we picked out number 22, The Iron Horse Trail: Washington Creek. That part of the journey didn't turn out well. The book is a bit confusing, it makes it sound like there is an awesome trestle with a spectacular view but there isn't on that part of the trail. So we did 9.5 miles and didn't reach the intended destination and it still turned out nice.






The book makes it sound like the trail is over by Rattlesnake Lake, so we walked a trail around it. Had no idea there was a trail there and that mad the disappointment that our goal trail is no where near it. Still, we enjoyed this failed journey and bogie went for a couple swims. Bye the way, the other side of the lake is Rattlesnake Ledge, that we visited and I've written about a few time before.



We finally found the correct trail and we followed it all the way to Twin Falls (which we have also visited before).





It looks like the trestle that I wanted is quite a distance farther down the Iron Horse Trail from there even. Next time, I think we will start off at the parking lot for twin falls, follow it up to Iron Horse and then try to make it over to this elusive landmark.