Poo Poo Point, East Tiger, Middle Tiger, Tiger Mountain Trail, West Tiger 3 & Poo Poo Point - Chirico Trail — Wednesday, May. 4, 2011

Issaquah Alps > Tiger Mountain

Started in Issaquah at Sunset/I-90, up Poo Poo Point trail to TMT, TMT to Middle Tiger, Road to East Tiger (awesome view of Rainier...), East Tiger trail to Bootleg to West Tiger 1, West Tiger 2, West Tiger 3, West Tiger 3 trail, Bus trail, Wetlands trail back to car. 4:00 hours car to car. Dog was pooped out! Besides the expected muddy spots here and there all trails were in pretty good condition. TMT: They are rebuilding a bridge, work in progress, but easy to get by. East Tiger trail: upper part is quite rutted from many mountain bikes on this "hikers only" trail East Tiger trail between Hobbart Railroad trail and the "new" road where they logged a few years ago: Someone tried to discourage bikers from using this "hikers only" trail by placing a few dozend logs across the trail. Unfortunately this also makes it difficult to hike and run on the trail. I removed many of those logs..... Making the trail difficult to use for ALL users is not the solution for keeping bikes off the trail. Oh, and there are a few remnants of snow on the road leading up to East Tiger, and in the shady (NE side) part of West Tiger 1.