The first chance I’ve had to hike on a sunny day in weeks! Got to the bus turn-around on Mt Si road at 10:30 and started up what would soon be the dirt road. You’ve got to pay attention because if you don’t keep track of time and your pace you’ll end up turning at the wrong gate. The first iron gate with the Discover Pass sign will take you to the Teneriffe Road Trail or some other place in the woods. Don’t go there. Don’t go down any forks in the road with address signs. Yes, follow the main road for roughly 1 mile. You will come to a junction in the road with three choices. Turn left to Teneriffe Estates, another iron gate, which is a private drive, and the real CCC Road trail on the right. It’s freshly painted blue with a Discover Pass sign. At the 2.5 mile mark go left at a junction. If you miss the turn and go right, you’ll see a blank white rectangular sign on the right. Turn around and go down the left fork. All this being said this trail is a long woods walk with not much to offer in the way of views. Nice creeks though.

I became an avid hiker last year but never branched out too much more than Mailbox Peak and Big Si. I purchased a trail book (Day Hiking Sno Qual Region) and started 5 Sundays ago on a mission to complete as many as I can this year. Luckily, weather has been wonderful so far, I was successful 4 Sundays in February & now the 1st Sunday in March. One thing I am noticing for some of the smaller hikes are the directions, details and information are lacking making it not only time consuming at the beginning but frustrating and as I get to the areas, others have expressed the same. Today, I intended to hike Little Si and unfortuntely, the trail was closed due to the recent (but not so recent) airplane crash. The trail has been closed since Feb. 15 so you would think the WTA would have the site updated so you are not wasting your time making the trip out there. Apperantly, we weren't the only ones interested in hiking Little Si and lack of info seemed common as many cars were pulling in and out and around, then scrambling to find something else to hike near by. How difficult can it be to keep this information posted? This is frustrating because I was driving from West Kent. As many of us did today, we decided to go to Big Si and found it was closed as well. Again, how come the WTA doesn't have this posted on their site? Luckily, we had our hiking book with us today so we continued up the road to hike Lower CCC Road. OUR MAIN CONCERN IS: THERE IS NO MAP/SIGN or INFO at the trailhead. Please, please fix this!!! Having conversations in the parking lot and with EVERY hiker on the trail, we found not one person who knew exactly what they were climbing for sure. It would be nice to have signs or infomation paointing out if you go left you will be climbing ... and if you go right you will be climbing ... There are also NO MILE MARKERS on the TRAIL ANYWHERE. So we have no idea how far we hiked. There seems to be many trail options but when you have options it is nice to know what lies ahead due to how much time you have left in your day and your expectations.

Most of the trail was at least car length wide or wider. No difficult. We hit snow, unfortunately, not sure where we did hit snow (since no mile markers) and have no idea how much of the trail was left. We think we started off doing CCC Lower Road and somehow ventured off onto someother trail that connected us to a more traveled trail but then was not sure whether to go left or right. We found that one trail took us up to Kamikaze Falls (but again, had no idea how far that was away) and if we wet the other way it took us down or we could fork back up the back side of Mount Si.

So frustrating. Something should be done about this. We purcahsed greentrailsmaps at REI on the way home. Helps some but geesh.... a map at the TRAILHEAD helping other would be nice ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING A PASS IS REQUIRED. WHAT IS OUR MONEY GOING TOWARDS?