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Cable Line Trail — Thursday, Sep. 30, 2021

Issaquah Alps > Tiger Mountain

You can get all the way up to where the Cable Line trail intersects the Section Line trail now before you hit the barricades. It is just below the summit, so you can see where the trees have been cut. I wandered around, but did not cross the barricades. Please don't because if people go up to the top, they may move the barricades back down to where they were. I could hear the machinery over by West Tiger 2. It also appeared that it was clear cut down the slope from W Tiger 3 over to W Tiger 2. It was foggy by the time I got up to the barricades, so I could not get a clear look. Once it opens up, I assume the views are going to be sweet not only on the top of W Tiger 3, but also on the ridge walk over to W Tiger 2. Hopefully they clean up all the slash, grade it out a bit, plant a few trees, and don't leave it as an ugly clear-cut, as it could turn out to be quite nice up there!!

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Maddy on Cable Line Trail

As a general rule I despise clear cuts. If done to reestablish views from West Tiger #3 then I'm OK with it. I'm worried however that the clear cut is going to be extensive and ugly. We'll just have to wait and see. The trees that were blocking that view are small and spindly and have no commercial value. The view used to be pretty good when I moved here in 1994.

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Maddy on Sep 30, 2021 03:55 PM

kidz won't hike on Cable Line Trail

I think we are all hoping it is not going to be a ugly clear cut. I just hate when they leave all the debris. It is an eyesore and it is horrible to try and get thru.

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kidz won't hike on Sep 30, 2021 08:59 PM

siddi on Cable Line Trail

I attended one of the guided hikes that the Weyerhaeuser VP of Sustainability led. She told us that they would replant their own faster growing Douglas fir seedlings, and not leave it up to nature like they did when they harvested a larger part of Tiger mountain last time (early 80s?) and handed over to Wash DNR. Their recent press release also said this.

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siddi on Oct 01, 2021 09:32 AM