Quick walk around the Bridle Trails state park trails this morning between pineapple express monsoons. Discover pass required as per normal. The main lot is large and really only gets busy if there is an equestrian event. One FYI - I was in the car eating my prewalk motivational mcmuffin when a woman who didn’t appear to be a ranger walked around the lot looking into cars, then quickly decided to skedaddle once she noticed me - take it for what it’s worth. The full restrooms are still open and even heated - a super nice little luxury. The route was a pretty basic clockwise loop of the exterior trails for a total of about 4.5 miles and a total gross vertical of a very comfortable 340’.
Trails were in surprisingly good condition given the storm-a-geddon yesterday and last night - a bit of erosion/mud from all the rain and some light tree debris was basically it. Interestingly the one and only tree I saw that had come down last night happened to take out powerlines along the eastern border - looks like it was in the street easement right next to the trail and fell out into the road taking out the lines. A PSE crew was already there and getting set up to put a fix on it. Not an overwhelming amount of wildlife out, some little winter forest birds, one raven, a couple douglas squirrels and something that looked like a weasel of some kind darted across the trail. There are a few mushrooms still coming up too. A nice little walk if you are in the area and super kudos to the park ranger folks that keep this place so nice and the PSE crews making sure all the neighbors get their lights back on.
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