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East Bank Baker Lake

Spent a night at the Noisy Creek campground on the East Bank Baker Lake trail. Despite the cold, wet weather the trip was enjoyable and relaxing. Only saw eight other people on the trail during my ...

Deception Pass State Park - Lottie Point Loop

We parked at Bowman Bay. Nice beach area with picnic tables and grills. There is a huge grass area too. Very short hike on this loop trail. We hiked Lighthouse point first and then made our way ...

Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park - Umatilla Rock via Monument Coulee

Went out to the coulee from Seattle for a day trip. Decided to hike Umatilla since the weather is so nice this time of year. Note: the trail is actually only 2.6 miles, not 5, round trip. Also note: ...

Selah Cliffs Natural Area Preserve

Ethan, Brenda, Jonah, Karen, & I took a walk at the Selah Cliffs Natural Area Preserve today. This hike was to celebrate (2 days belated) my 75th birthday. I have had a cold, so something ...

Candy Mountain Trail

This was our first time trying Candy Mountain! We wanted to get out but try something new from Badger. This was a lovely trail. We appreciated the nice interpretive signs in the lower section of ...

West Elwha

I hiked the West Elwha Trail to Altair Campground, then continued another 1.3 miles up the closed Olympic Hot Springs Road to the Glines Canyon Dam overlook. When I arrived at the trailhead at ...

Quinault National Recreation Trails

There were a lot of couples out on the trail, but nature was my valentine today (as my family opted for the beach instead!). Great weather, some showers on the drive in and at the trailhead, and a ...

Third Beach

Arrived at 1pm on Saturday, 4 other cars in the lot so there was tons of room to park. The hike down is gentle for half and steep for half. Boots recommended since the trail was pretty muddy in ...

Washington Park Arboretum

Wanted to take advantage of a beautiful day but don't have my car over here yet, so I grabbed the #8 bus from downtown and went up to the Arboretum. Restrooms are available at a few ...

Welts-Samish Restoration Site

I stopped at several locations in the area as well as the Welts Samish Restoration trail head. There were lots of birds out and lots of birders enjoying the raptors.The birds and excellent weather ...

Green River Natural Area

The trail was muddy in places, but not to bad considering all the rain we've had lately. The river was high and the beach at the end of Potter's trail was completely under water.

Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

What a wonderful walk today! The kids had no school today, so we went to Nisqually Wildlife Refuge in search of Bald Eagles! We found them and so much more! The walk is flat and clear with no ...

Lanham Lake Snowshoe

Trail was in good condition -- clear tracks to follow all the way up. As others have noted, the only slightly confusing part is when you come up upon the power lines. Just head slightly right and ...

Skagit Wildlife Area

There was finally a sun break north of Stanwood this afternoon. I found Tundra Swans and Snow Geese. It was great to feel the sun. The geese were closer than the swans, so I chose to include ...

Manastash Ridge - Westberg Trail

I love a good rainy, mossy, green forest hike but was ready for some sunshine today. Trail is around 90 minutes from the Eastside and is accessible to any type of car. I used micro spikes for the ...

Asahel Curtis Nature Trail

Went here with a friend and we had a blast! I couldn’t drive into the ice compacted parking lot because I don’t have AWD or chains to drive down the road 😕 We did park next to freeway entrance tho ...

Pine and Cedar Lakes

Trail snow-covered, slushy much of the way. We found microspikes and poles helpful. We went to Pine Lake and there are single-plank boards around the lake. If you go left, the planks are less ...

Nason Ridge Snowshoe

Nobody's gone past the first lookout over the lake about a half mile in. The snow is very deep beyond that so if someone else would like to stomp a trail go for it! The lookout over the ...

Little River

I was wary of the snow forecast for the weekend but still wanted to get out, so my friend and I had a weekend adventure in the low elevation forests of the Olympics. Saturday we did Gold Creek ...

Tubal Cain Mine, Gold Creek, Lower Gray Wolf River

Didn't actually do all these hikes but tagging them for road conditions. We were aiming to do lower gray wolf but somehow drove past a turnoff and ended up at the Lower Dungeness Trailhead ...

Little Mashel Falls - Pack Forest

Located just south of Eatonville is the UW Pack Forest. Currently there is a barricade on Hwy 7 just east of the junction due to a minor slide at the Alder dam. Simply drive around the barricade to ...

Kendall Peak Lakes Snowshoe

We had a great time today on this trail! It is snow covered in a couple feet of snow the whole way, but the snow was hard packed from all the foot traffic. We used snowshoes, but the trail could be ...

Oak Creek Road - Bethel Ridge

Ethan & I took a walk up the Oak Creek Road on this sunny, cool day. Once past Clint Canyon there were a number of places where the road was covered with about 1/2 inch of compact snow & ice. We ...

Explorer Falls

No issues reaching the small parking lot where Monroe Camp Rd is gated. Continued on foot along the road. Multiple signs and lots of flagging made the turn-off for Explorer Falls hard to miss. The ...

Wenatchee Crest Snowshoe (Blewett Pass)

Lots of bang for little effort. We parked in the (small) North sno park area in front of the sign. The South parking lot just across Hwy-97 has many more spaces, fyi. Beautiful blue sky day (Flowx ...

Rialto Beach and Hole-in-the-Wall

Put in one last hike before the New Year 2020! Went out with my sister out to Rialto for the first time on an overnight and it was amazing. Not a lot of blue skies, but the ambiance was eerily ...

Packwood Lake

We arrived at 10am and were the second car in the lot. The trail begins with no snow, but we encountered snow about 2 miles from the lake. No snowshoes or spikes were needed. As we descended to the ...

Wenatchee Crest Snowshoe (Blewett Pass)

It was a blue bird day at Blewett Pass. Snow starts at the sno park parking lot. The trail has two tracks that are well beaten down. I wore just my boots the first 3 miles with no issues. ...

Camano Ridge Trail

Started from the large parking lot off N Camano Ridge Rd around noon. There was a trailhead kiosk, but no obvious signage on the road. Followed a counterclockwise loop around the park. While the ...

Staircase Rapids

Driving directions are spot on. Large potholes when the road changes from paved to gravel. Otherwise, road is passable for regular clearance vehicles. Muddy, so the potholes are obvious. Entrance is ...

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