Brink Trail, Bonneville Trail, Bus Trail, Adventure Trail, Big Tree Trail & Tradition Lake Loop — Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015

Issaquah Alps > Tiger Mountain

Needed a walk with a bit less incline today after making a blood donation on Friday and ended up doing a loop around the Tradition Lake plateau area from the highpoint trail head off I-90. The access road up to the lot is as full of potholes as ever - better to just park along the road below and take the short cut trail up. We made a counter clockwise loop starting on Around the Lake, right on Bonneville, left on Brink, a quick back track along Big Tree to see the big tree, across the power lines to Adventure trail, left on High School, another left back on Bonneville then back around to the trail head on Bus trail. Not much vertical at all and total mileage is a bit over 4. The trail head was packed, but surprisingly there were hardly anybody else out on these lower trails today. The fog muffled the sound so once you get away from I-90 the forest was super quiet. The one remaining old growth fir along big tree trail is worth a stop - who knows why the loggers decided to leave just that one tree. Don't miss what is left of the old Kenworth split-level bus abandoned by logging crews in the 50's.