Let me start with a question: have any subscribers gotten emails for new posts lately? If so, please add a brief comment to let me know. If not, well, I will assume that I have to keep trying to figure out what is going wrong, as I no longer get an email when I put up a new post.
As for today’s hike, I started kind of late as we had a contractor over in the morning. I parked on Bush Street in Issaquah, just off their main street (Front Street) and took the connector trail over to Squak Mountain. Nice town! Two mountains, Tiger and Squak, within their city limits, although Tiger goes east towards Snoqualmie.
The trails on the east side of Squak are in great shape. The trip up to SE Peak is steep but not ridiculous. The little side trail (about .5 mile) to the peak that intersects the East Ridge Trail is strictly unofficial but in decent enough shape, give or take a muddy gully or two.
7.7 miles, about 2K elevation gain (there are some ups and downs along the way) about 3.5 hours and a very nice workout.
There are some nice trees along the trail, including this large Red Cedar:
Track below:
