Nothing better than to wake your home from college son up at 6AM to go hiking...in the rain...
Our group ended up hiking this versus the traditional Mt Si trail to the haystack. This was my first time on this trail which is really a logging road (old one???). The trail starts out with only a mild elevation gain and our pace was pretty fast ~15 minute mile. Once the road took a major turn up in elevation, I slowed way down to ~35/40 minute mile with breaks along the way. I cannot imagine a logging truck making those steep climbs. The rode is in great shape with only a few spots where there is water running across it (nothing major) and a few blow downs.
Just prior to top (think about 3/4 of the way) we ran into snow and from folks coming down there was a bunch more to get through. We decided to take the saddle pass to the back side of the haystack which was covered in hard pack, slushy snow with lots of blow downs
Had lunch at the top and headed down. Total of 10.2 miles and my son/I are still feeling the pain :-(
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