The recent rainy spell was helpful for directing my attention away from mountain peaks and reminding me how much beauty is available in the luminous lowland forest around Coal Creek and Cougar Mountain.
I went the length of the Coal Creek trail, through Red Town and out the Wildside trail to Far Country Falls. As usual, the Coal Creek and Cougar Mountain trails are excellent and in good condition, thanks to King County and Bellevue crews. The rain brought down many small branches onto the trails, but only one major blockage, a fallen tree that must be climbed over. That's about 0.8 mile from the Coal Creek Parkway trailhead, about 100 yards west of where the Primrose Trail branches off. It's likely to have been cleared by the time you're reading this.
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