Adventure Trail, West Tiger 3, West Tiger Railroad Grade & Poo Poo Point — Friday, Jan. 17, 2014

Issaquah Alps > Tiger Mountain

Starting off Sunset, we headed up hill to the plateau. The trail is a bit steep in places, but well maintained. At the plateau is a nice park bench overlooking Issaquah (see picture) Next hiked over Adventure trail, which is a very nice woodsy trail. Then followed Poo Poo point trail up hill for a few miles. This trail is also maintained very well, and has a few bridges with nice creeks. The valley is named Many Creeks Valley. At the junction for Poo Poo Point, One View trail and West RR grade we headed along West Tiger RR. This trail is not maintained very well, and over the years, the railroad grade is mostly gone. When we got to the "unmaintained" Section trail we headed up the steep 1/2 mile climb to the summit of West Tiger 3. This is a popular summit for many hikers, but the views are scant with many trees. See picture for our view looking over the fog below. We headed down the steep Section grade back to Poo Poo Point trail. Once we were past the unmaintained section, the trail became good and fast, with one good creek crossing. Out final leg, took us over the wetland trail (rather than taking the Adventure trail). A very nice Round lake resides along this trail. Since it was getting dark we donned our head lamps and did not get a good look at this area. Total hike around 9 miles with a total altitude climb of 3100 feet. Best reason to hike Tiger now is that there is not enough good snow or weather in the mountains, to snow shoe.