BASICS
- Perfect weather FRI, 0800: 18 cars in parking lot
- Bathrooms clean and toilet paper stocks (that you effective government)
- Trail clear and clean all the way up.
- By 1:00PM there were 45 cars in lot - still plenty of room for more.
- Lots of folks heading up later morning with heavy packs in training for some great ascent.
- By 0900 in the shaded lower sections, the first mosquitos were out. Bring your bug spray for the bottom and your sun block for the top.
- And with the warm weather comes tic season - use your favorite bug repellent around your legs and check yourself in all those hidden parts when you get home at night. (I have personal knowledge of a WA stater getting a life threatening, neurological impairing infection from a WA tic).
HELP the PARK:
- Please look at the blue poster on the bulletin board just past the restrooms. It asks everyone to text a UW number to answer 4 questions about what you see at that moment regarding parking and trail capacity. It takes about 15 seconds.
- Responding to this will help the state and WTA allocate scarce resources where they are most needed. (see photo of the sign).
SOCIAL
- Dogs on leashes are allowed on trail. Unfortunately the majority of owners feel they are special and don't need to leash their dog. Two of them leave poop bags - which were not picked up 4 hours later. Hmmm. As a fellow dog owner - you folks are giving us a bad reputation.
IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T DONE MT. SI BEFORE:
- This isn't my favorite hike. It's basically up, up, up. There are really only two brief flat sections -- each with a nice bench to rest on. The view at the top are some of the best w/in 1-hour of downtown. But it's 3,200 hard slog feet up with basically nothing to look at on the way.
- But it is great for "put your head down and churn it out" conditioning.
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