I wound up doing 5 miles today in the vicinity of Rattlesnake Lake. My plan was to do Olallie Trail and I left the car to go up the trail at just before 6am. Pretty early. Plenty of parking.
But I only went about a mile on the PTC when I started to sweat. It was already approaching 75 degrees and we have had several days in the 90’s lately. I did not want to get dehydrated, and risk more muscle spasms, so I re-routed.
I went down the Christmas Lake Trail, to the Rattlesnake Ledge trail via the back door, took that to the beginning then went to the Education Center, and back. By the time I got back to where I parked the area was mobbed and it took me a little while just to escape.
On the way back, via 203 and 202, I stopped in Duvall for a coffee. I took it to a picnic bench near the Snoqualmie River, sipped my coffee and left. I had put my phone in my side pocket when I left to get the coffee, and I stupidly did not zip the pocket. I figured I would get the coffee and go right back to the car.
I enjoyed the coffee and the view and walked back to the car. I was in Woodinville, having traveled perhaps a dozen miles when I felt my pocket for my phone. Empty! I pulled into a parking lot, searched the car – still no phone.
It is easy to imagine that I was close to panicking. To lose a phone these days is serious business. I figured my only chance was to turn around and drive back to Duvall and check where I had been, starting with the bench on which I had been sitting.
It was a long drive back, I was so impatient. I was also thinking I was wasting time, I am an idiot twice over. Once for losing the phone, twice for going all the way back on that winding road to check for it. But I kept going.
I pulled into Duvall, found a place to park (quite fortunately) and made a bee-line to where I had been sitting. There were a number people in the area and I was prepared to offer a small reward to anyone who had found my phone. But miracle of miracles, the phone was lying there, in the dust, right where I had been sitting. And the photo at the top of this post is proof, as I had forgotten my camera and snapped one shot with my phone.
All is well that ends well but I am looking forward to some slightly cooler weather.
Track below.
