Little Si — Saturday, May. 18, 2002

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

The Little Si parking lot was full as usual, but just up the road, it looks like the new parking area is getting pretty close to being finished! I took the trail leading from the new lot - I had not been this way before. Clearly a bunch of work has gone into this trail - hats off to the builders. It is quite picturesque, imediately starting out with a lovely view of the valley just a minute or two into the walk. Work has been done on the rest of the original trail since I had been there last. There aren't any logs you have to climb over anymore and the trail condition is quite good. At the top the view is as nice as always and the weather was clear enough to see quite some distance. There were quite a few other folks on the trail but all were friendly, (I was kindly offered to share one group's gorp.) Several different languages were represented - it was pretty neat to hear German (I think it was German..) coming from up the trail, and French from behind me as I climbed the last few hundred yards to the top. Little Si is not a big challenge, but I think it's a great early season jaunt to get the cob webs out of the body.