It has been a while since I hiked – I had a slight calf strain and I thought it wise, given the long hike Derek and I are doing in Ireland in a few weeks, to rest. But I was not happy about it.
Because I hadn’t hiked in so long I chose a relatively mild hike today. I will have to work back up to the tough ones, I guess.
I took the Christmas Lake trail back, and then wandered over to Rattlesnake Lake. It is looking OK, but by next month it should be fairly low:
On the way home, driving the “back” way through Carnation and Duvall (thereby avoiding the annoying freeways) it occurred to me that I hadn’t visited Snoqualmie Falls (the waterfall shown in ‘Twin Peaks’) in years. But I drive by it quite often. Free parking, an additional bit of hiking, why not?
So I parked, walked over the pedestrian bridge and checked out the view of the falls:
After snapping a couple of pictures from on top I took the .5 mile trail down to the river. It is rather steep so it was an extra bit of hiking. The trail goes down to the Snoqualmie River:
It was nice to get back into hiking, my calf is not sore at all, I should be good to get back on my training plan.