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Home Go Hiking Trip Reports High School Trail, Poo Poo Point, One-View Trail, Tiger Mountain Trail, Hobart - Middle Tiger Railroad Trail, Fifteenmile Creek Railroad Grade, Bootleg Trail, Dwight's Way, High Point Trail, Bus Trail, Wetlands Trail, Adventure Trail
At the clearcut along TMT. Mt Rainier in the distance, view of South Tiger (I think) just around the bend from here.

A few off-leash dogs, as usual, on Poo Poo Point trail / High School trail. After the junction with One View trail, I didn't see another person until Middle Tiger trail. The TMT closure sign is gone at the junction with TMT-Fifteen Mile, though there was an older Danger: Logging sign that someone left up along the TMT, just after the intersection with Hobart Grade.

TMT is quite overgrown in areas, a little challenging.

The clearcut along the TMT, before the Middle Tiger Trail, is brutal: sunny, exposed, dusty. Wild, but you can see South Tiger from the TMT now that it's all stumps. A work crew was repairing the TMT, thanks folks!

"East Tiger Connector" (which doesn't connect there anymore) between the road over Soderman Creek and Bootleg Trail was incredibly overgrown - no trail closure sign, but I really wouldn't recommend it - easier to go around the old Paw Print Connector way (Fifteenmile Creek / Bootleg).

Lots of ripe berries, still: huckleberry, salmonberry, a few thimbleberries. Flowers are dying back and bit, with some old vanilla leaf and bleeding heart, but foamflower and foxglove still looks fresh. There's a spot along TMT near W Tiger that has ghost pipe and coralroot, and between WT1-Middle Tiger there's some bog wintergreen along it too.

The whole way was runnable except for portions of TMT and that "East Tiger Connector"

Trail sign at one end of Middle Tiger (this is a continuation of the trail, origin is behind me)
Map at one (the other) end of Middle Tiger
Nominally open... I don't recommend it
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