Exploring Green River Trail With Pictures

Last Friday after work and Sunday after racquetball, bogie and I ventured to the Green River trail over by the house. On Friday, we went across the grated bridge (bogie not a fan) and Sunday we went down the road on the same side of the river.

On to the pictures!

My First Dog - Rinny (for rin tin tin)

Last year I started a project of scanning all my photos in digital files and then the arduous task of organizing them. Then when that would be done, uploading them to the "cloud", via various services, for long term storage.

Came across this gem of the first dog I ever had (and technically he was one of my brothers dogs) but I certainly bonded with him hard.

Cedar River Trail - Landsburg Park

The sun came out just a little bit, after an entire week of rain. Decided that we should try to knock another one of the “60 Hikes With 60 Miles Of Seattle” items off of our list. Decided to do number 21, Cedar River Trail, Landsburg Park. I had never driven through Issaquah and found that was delightful. I also was paying attention to where Front Street was because I would need to make a left turn on it for a future hike (number 19 in the book Poo Poo Trail).


The river was really high and the current looked a tad bit scary. Also, was amazed about how much moss was over taking much of the trees in particular areas of the trail.


It was only a four mile hike or so but we enjoyed it. I tried my hand at taking some abstract pictures of an old railroad bridge. All in all, a nice little hike but I am getting anxious (way too soon) for future all day hikes to come.

Interurban Photo Walk Experiment

Last Sunday I wanted to see how it would be like to walk over to the Interurban Trail is closest to the apartment and take some pictures along the way. I knew the pictures wouldn’t be impressive but you never really know until you download them from the camera. I also wanted to see how likely it was to walk with Bogie to the trail. This turned out to be OK but the trail just isn’t pretty enough for me to make it a regular thing. However, I do think it is possible for me to use it to ride a bike to work. I may see if there is a way to “rent” a bike instead of buying one for this next experiment. I know that sounds pretty lame but I really don’t want to add more stuff in my life that doesn’t work out. Anyway, on to the photos ...



Have to say I looked at the end of school day time of 2:53 and thought "really?".

Mud Mountain Recreational Area

This is a hike that has been on the radar since August of 2008. That is when I did the Federation Forest State Park trail and drove right by this one. In fact, they are listed number 56 and number 57 respectively within the book "60 Hikes With 60 Miles Of Seattle".


These hikes were too far of a drive from my previous digs in Snohomish, the payoff view didn’t sound all that impressive and the distances are just average. Now that I’m down here in Kent, it is a great opportunity to finish up the remaining southerly hikes from the book.

Seattle in March, you don’t have much choice for pretty hikes but this was OK. We got a late start because it was so foggy until about 10:30. Evidently, many others were in the same boat. Only two other cars were in the lot when we arrived and about ten when we left.

According to the book, this is about 6 miles. With the wrong turns I made (including a loop / that was a new one), we probably walked closer to eight miles.

All in all, a nice hike. Next time, I think we will try to do the Federation Park hike and this hike back to back.

Wet Saturday On The Foothills Trail

Way back in 2002, the wonder dog and I left Illinois as I took a job in Fife Washington. The company I went to work for provided a furnished apartment for the first three months and I picked up a book called Rails To Trails. This trail was the first one that I explored from that book and today we paid it a return visit.

This is a hiking trail at all, flat blacktop in place of railroad track. Although it rained the entire time, we enjoyed it along with plenty of runner and bike riders. Well, enough of the commentary and on to the pictures.








One tired dog on the ride home!

Sunday Hike At Rattlesnake Ledge

So I decided to forego taking the trip into Seattle to take advantage of the Emerald City Comic Con ticket I had. Really wanted to stretch my legs on another trail and decided to try the Rattlesnake Ledge hike again. The last time I did this trail was in June of 2008 and wanted to see what the winter version of this hike looked like.



A nice 1.8 mile trail that was part green and part white with snow. Quite a few switchbacks and this was a nice change from yesterdays road grade outing.



Where is the view? I can only guess it is there but you can click this link from my June 2008 excursion (Rattlesnake Ledge State Park) to see what it should look like. No fear, I’m sure I’ll do this hike again this summer since the apartment is so close to this trail.


Enjoying the snow!





Here are some of the final pictures with my Panasonic DMC-ZS6 camera. I had decided to try and use the small gorilla pod to take a picture of bogie and myself. Out of nowhere, a stiff wind blew and the camera went right into the lake! So another year of hiking and another camera destroyed! You would think I do this intentionally in order to keep trading up!