Old Man's Trail, Cave Hole, By Pass Trail, Fred's Railroad, Quarry & Coal Creek Falls — Sunday, Mar. 16, 2014

Issaquah Alps > Cougar Mountain

This day we were supposed to hike on the Old Suak River trail but rain and possible flooding conditions changed our idea as well as group size (from 12 to 3). We decided to do a Coal Creek Falls Loop from the Sky Country trail head on Cougar Mt. We lucked out with fairly dry conditions followed by hot beverages at Starbucks. The trail conditions are sloppy, muddy and wet. This did not prevent large numbers of trail runners from doing their thing nor the three of us (Peak Master Paul, Juggernaut Jeff, and Alpine Art) from getting out. Coal Creek is running 'high' and the falls were as pretty as I have seen them.