Mailbox Peak - Old Trail — Sunday, Jun. 28, 1998

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

After a weekend in plastic boots and stomping onsnow all day, I was in the mood for some good oldfashioned DIRT. Something nice and easy... something relaaxing.How about... Mailbox Peak! Sheesh, I should get myhead examined. The trail is in good shape with few blowdowns untilquite high (and those are not a problem). No snowon any of the mountain. Those not familiar with thistrail: it is very steep and will test your will power(almost as bad as Rainier was a couple days earlier!) Up top, there were 10-12 Weekday Mountaineers ontheir weekly hike. Mighty impressive, as one fellowis 82 years old! I plan to hike up there in 41 years, soanybody want to schedule for late June of 2039' Bill Sunderland, your ""Green Eggs and Ham"" stillhas room for a few more signatures, as does theJim Morrison poetry book. Someone also placed abrand new spiral notebook in the mailbox. This was thefirst time I saw the mailbox, as my other climbswere in the winter. Great reading, I spent 90 minutes reading all the mail!