- Aug 30, 2001
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I'm planning to hike a bunch this spring and summer, so I'm going to keep track of all of them and see if I can't tally up how many miles and feet in elevation I do for the year. This technically isn't the first hike I've done this year, but the first was more of a romp through the woods on unknown trails with no real destination in mind. I'm not sure how far I walked and there's no way to tell, so I'm just not going to count it. This will be my first.
Goal: West Tiger Summit viewpoint via Preston Trail
Distance: 7.6 miles round trip
Elevation gain: 2,500 feet
Trailhead:
The trail beyond this sign is short and comes to a rarely used utility service road fill with ankle breaking jagged rocks. This was trekked maybe 20 minutes and then the trail resumed. It was a good day for trucking up a mountain.
This crazy mushroom looked more like a rock.
I'm holding the camera level. It doesn't look very threatening in the photo, but from this point on (maybe a mile and a half into the hike) this is pretty much what it was like.
Eventually we reached a little bit of snow. It never got too bad.
At this point I put my camera away and just finished off the hike.
Looking southwest, towards Tacoma.
Looking northwest. You can see Bellevue closer in the foreground and Seattle farther in the background.
For some reason I didn't take a picture of the whole Hikers Hut, but it was unremarkable. Just a big rusted metal hut that looked mostly like this.
Broke out the zoom lens for this one. I love how you can see the foothills of the Olympics mountains in the background, covered in rain clouds. From the ground in Seattle, the Olympics look tiny.
Oh and also... behind us the whole time at the summit, looming with it's head in the clouds watching over everything... good ol Mt. Rainier.
Ate a turkey a sammich, puffed one for the Gods, and head back down the same way.
Epic hike was epic.
Goal: West Tiger Summit viewpoint via Preston Trail
Distance: 7.6 miles round trip
Elevation gain: 2,500 feet
Trailhead:
The trail beyond this sign is short and comes to a rarely used utility service road fill with ankle breaking jagged rocks. This was trekked maybe 20 minutes and then the trail resumed. It was a good day for trucking up a mountain.
This crazy mushroom looked more like a rock.
I'm holding the camera level. It doesn't look very threatening in the photo, but from this point on (maybe a mile and a half into the hike) this is pretty much what it was like.
Eventually we reached a little bit of snow. It never got too bad.
At this point I put my camera away and just finished off the hike.
Looking southwest, towards Tacoma.
Looking northwest. You can see Bellevue closer in the foreground and Seattle farther in the background.
For some reason I didn't take a picture of the whole Hikers Hut, but it was unremarkable. Just a big rusted metal hut that looked mostly like this.
Broke out the zoom lens for this one. I love how you can see the foothills of the Olympics mountains in the background, covered in rain clouds. From the ground in Seattle, the Olympics look tiny.
Oh and also... behind us the whole time at the summit, looming with it's head in the clouds watching over everything... good ol Mt. Rainier.
Ate a turkey a sammich, puffed one for the Gods, and head back down the same way.
Epic hike was epic.
