when: thursday august 19th 2010
where: Puget Sound / North Bend
participants: uncle and myself
driver: dave drove his prius
food: leftover cheeseburgers, peanut butter clif bar, brownies, orange, lettuce, peanut butter and jelly.
trail: the 3 year old trail has many switchbacks built in and is marked by a post at the end of each of the four miles. the previous trail was a "scamper" before the switchbacks were installed during a time of financial abundance and park revitalization.
views/weather: after the 3rd mile-marker the air was damp and misty. virtually no views, besides the rocks and pines on the mountain itself. it was freezing on top. i put on all the clothes i had in my pack.
notes: we originally planned to take three more people with us, but all of them decided not to come. we had more food in that case than we could eat. on top is this thing called 'the haystack' which a hundred foot dome of rock that you have to 'scamper' up to get on top of. it was wet so we didn't think we'd get all the way up but we went to take pictures and look at the rock groove that looks easiest to scale. when we came back to where we left our lunch a person told us a chipmunk was getting into our food. i looked at the bag that had the brownies in it and there were only two left and we had brought three. there were a lot of people on the trail as we came down. seems like a popular spot. you'd pass a group hiking up as you hiked down like every ten minutes.
elevation: 4,167, a relief of 3,200 ft.
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