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Trail Distance: 6.2 Miles round trip Elevation Gain: 1200 ft A trip to the lakes does not entail expectations of great views of distant landscapes. Yet the mountainsides rising from the lakes can be astoundingly beautiful. Such is the setting of the Talapus Lake and Olallie Lake that I set out for today. The trail head itself is located at a relatively higher elevation of 2800 ft reached

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Trail Distance: 6.2 miles out and back Cummulative Elevation Gain: 2500 ft Red Mountain and Red Pass to its left After the very late onset of the summer season this year, the pacific northwest has experienced a consistently beautiful sunny  weather over last few weeks. In order to take full advantage of this blessing, I have abandoned my preference for  a couple weeks to recoup from

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Trail Distance: 1.5 miles round trip Elevation Difference: 200 ft. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end”.  Seattle waterfront as viewed from the ferry This proverb can not be truer in case of the short hike to Cape Flattery: in terms of the the travel to get to the trail head as the journey that includes a ferry ride from Seattle

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Rock climbers on the farthest peak Trail Distance: 8 milesCummulative Elevation Gain: 3500 ft Wild flowers After the aborted attempt to hike Guye Peak last week, today was another opportunity to complete the intended hike with an excellent clear sunny sky. I am aware of an alternate trail that starts off from the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) trail head about a mile away. This alternate trail

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Trail Distance: 4 miles out and back Elevation Gain: 1600 ft Guye Peak peeking in the distance With the continuing nice weather that started right after my hike to Snoqualmie mountain last weekend, I returned to the same Aipental trail head, this time with friend Saranga, with the plan for scaling Guye Peak. Just like the Snoqualmie mountain, the Guye Peak is also a very prominent geological

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Sunday, July 31, 2011 Distance: 6 miles out and backElevation Gain: 3278 ft Highest Elevation: 6178 ft Looking up snow clad ridge Anyone who has driven on Interstate 90 highway past Snoquamie Pass can not miss the imposing view of  Snoqualmie Mountain sitting just to the north of the hairpin bend the highway takes at summit and beyond the nearby Guye Peak. Whenever I see it, I use to

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The Source Lake from above  Sunday,, July 24, 2011 Distance: 5 Miles Round tripCummulative Elevation Gain: 1500 ft The weather was nice. Yet because of the late onset of summer this year, the snow has not melted at most of the usual destinations. Even at the Snoqualmie Pass area, a lot of snow was reported by other hikers earlier in the week. My friend Mrinal accompanied me on this hike.

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Distance 2 miles out and 3 miles back Elevation Gain: 2200 ft The Beacon Why this trail today? Because it is highlighted as the "Hike Of The Week" at the WTA site - supposed to be free of snow while the wild flowers are blooming, both of which actually turned out to be true. In consideration of Amlan - my hiking companion today who has not hiked much before, I was also looking for a trail

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Saturday, July 2, 2011 Distance: 8.6 Miles Round tripElevation Gain: 3800 ft It was the long weekend of 4th of July with the Monday being the holiday. Excellent weather was in forecast. And I have not gone hiking for a while (not counting a short trip to Poo Poo Point the previous weekend). So I wanted to make the most of this first nice day of the Summer by visiting some place good. I thought

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View from Stan's Overlook Distance: 12 Miles Out and Back Elevation Gain: 2520 Ft Trail distance chart and rules In a typical Pacific Northwest winter weekend with gloomy overcast sky, I decided that I could do with some useful exercise by hiking a nearby trail. I also wanted to do a new trail. I had already done Rattlesnake Ledge near the Rattlesnake Lake before, though I have not written

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Saturday, February 14, 2010 Cumulative Elevation gain 3700 ft I am a bit wary of going off alone on any hiking trail during the winter season when the snowy reaches of the trails can sometimes be very treacherous. But I have found a dependable company in David who is a veteran of hiking: in pacific northwest and away, to peaks and lakes, during summer and winter. So off we go again - this time

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Date of Hiking: Sunday, January 31, 2010 Trail Length: 10 Miles out and back Level of Difficulty: Medium This was a typically overcast Pacific Northwest sky in the usually wet month of January. I was hoping to escape through a low hike dry and cozy. So I met up with David and headed to the Wallace Falls trails near Highway 2 that travels across the Stevens Pass to the Eastern Washington via

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Saturday, December 26 2009Cumulative Elevation gain 420 ftTrail length: 13 miles loopLevel of difficulty: MediumIt was the day after Christmas and the sun was shining bright. I have not done much of winter hikes so far. So I talked to David for the possibility of another hike together. David has been hiking in the Puget Sound area for several years and knows details of many of the trails by heart

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Sunday, December 6 2009Level of difficulty: HardDavid and I set out for Mount Teneriffe - a twin of, so to say, Mount Si. The trail head is located about 2 miles further away from Mount Si trail head on Mt Si Road SE and has an elevation of about 960 feet The trail length to the destination Mount Teneriffe would be roughly seven miles and the elevation is about 4760 feet.The trail started

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Sunday, September 27 2009Cumulative Elevation gain 600 ftTrail length: 5 miles one wayTime taken: 2hours one wayLevel of difficulty: MediumI am picking up where we left the last time around - near the Twin Falls and Olallie State Park. It is the same trail that starts near Rattlesnake Mountain and we hiked four miles of this trail to the Olallie State Park. This time around we started off at the

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Saturday, September 12 2009Cumulative Elevation gain 3000 ftTrail length: 3.8 miles one wayTime taken: 2hours 20 minutes on way upLevel of difficulty: DifficultNice sunny day. A forest road off of exit 42 of I-90 over 3 .3 miles leads to the Ira Spring trail head. The trail starts off on an old time logging road for the first mile with gentle slope and travels eastward parallel to the highway

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Sunday, August 30 2009Cumulative Elevation gain 2200 ftTrail length: 4.5 miles one wayTime taken: 2hours 20 minutes on way up and 2 hours 5 minutes on way back.Level of difficulty: DifficultIt was an overcast morning to start with. Most of the clouds/fogs were hanging low. Judging by the small number of cars parked at the small parking area near the trail head at about 9:30 AM, we thought it was

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Sunday, August 16th, 2009Cumulative Elevation gain about 300 ftTrail length covered : 4.5 miles one wayTime taken: 1hr 30 minutes s on way up and 1 hr 40 on way down.Level of difficulty: EasyThis is a trail on an old railroad grade that used to stretch from Seattle to Chicago. The railway tracks are not there any more and the grade was converted into a gravel pathway in the 1980s. The section

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Saturday, August 1st, 2009Cumulative Elevation gain 2700 ftTrail length: 5.5 miles one wayTime taken: 2hr 45 minutes s on way up and 2 hr 30 on way down.Level of difficulty: DifficultFrom 20090801 Hiking Kendall KatwalkKendall Katwalk is a segment of the Pacific Crest Trail that extends from Mexico all the way to Canada. The access point to the trail is located at the Snoqualmie Pass on the I-90

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Sunday, July 26thElevation gain 1700 ftTrail length: 4.5 miles one wayTime taken: 1 hr 35 minutes s on way up and 1 hr 10 on way down.Level of difficulty: Medium Poo Poo Point is perched atop the west precipice of the Tiger Mountain near Issaquah. It is a very popular launching point for para gliders and advanced (level 3) hang-gliders. On a sunny dry day traveling on I-90 East and before

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Saturday, July 18thElevation gain 3800 ftTrail length: 4.4 miles one wayTime taken: 2 hrs 40 mins on way up and 1 hr 45 on way down.Level of difficulty: HardAnother excellent Summer day in the Pacific Northwest, and what a better way to soak it up than being at the summit of the shear cliff of the McClellan Butte at an elevation of 5,160 ft?Unlike other hikes I have undertaken so far, I started

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Sunday, June 22ndElevation gain: 1500 ftLength: 5 miles round tripTime taken: 90 minutes one wayDifficulty: Medium/HardLink to picturesFinally I have sit down to write about this trip done four weeks ago. Goat peak trail is located several miles off the scenic North Cascade Highway. The trail head is accessible through partly surfaced and partly gravelly forest roads off of the main highway. The

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From Rainy LakeSaturday, June 21stElevation gain: NoneLength: 1 mile one wayTime taken: 20 minutes one wayIf you happen to be traveling across the Cascade Mountains in the Washington state via highway 20, you will cross Rainy Pass and Washington Pass. At Rainy pass, a quarter mile off the road is a trail head for trails to Rainy Lake (1.0 mile). Parking payment is required at the trail head.Its a

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Saturday, June the 13thElevation gain 3800 ftTrail length: 4.3 miles one wayTime taken: 2 hrs 45 mins way up and 2 hrs on way down.It was a perfect weather to start with - bright and sunny. I was paging through my hiking book Beyond Mount Si trying to decide which trail to head too. After scaling the Mail Box peak a week ago, I was getting feeling confident of taking on one of the more difficult

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Sunday the June 7th, 2009Elevation gain - 4000 ftTrail length - 2.5 milesTime taken - 2 hours on way up, 1.5 hours on way down.I heard about this trail from a fellow hiker whom I met duringa a trip to the Tiger Mountains. Then a discussion with my colleague David, who is an avid hiker, albeit much more experienced, whetted my interest so much that I setout for this trail today.While driving east

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