Listing the route I took yesterday on Tiger Mountain makes it sound like a grueling hike – Nook Trail to Section Line to Bonneville Powerline to Wetlands to Puget Power to Around the Lake – but it was only about 5 miles with most of the elevation gain on the Nook.
I hit the trail from the High Point parking lot at 5:50 am. My plan that day was to do my bi-weekly gig as a babysitter in Snoqualmie but Jill’s work schedule has been changed and she wanted me there at 9 rather than the usual 8. Leaving home an hour later would get me bogged down in commuter traffic so I decided to do a hike a few miles from their home in the early AM.
I am glad I did. It really started the day right, and I spent the day with Camden (his sister was in school) who is almost 4 and a total delight. We are great pals.
I hope tomorrow to find Dirty Harry’s Bathtub, a small lake between Dirty Harry’s Peak and Web Mountain. If I can find the lake, Derek and I can go back there some day and find a way to summit Web Mountain.