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Mount Si

Put in a solid three and a half hours this morning and ticked off Mount Si with Dean. We couldn’t have asked for better weather, and with light packs it was a fairly easy hike, other than the distance (+/-8 miles) and the altitude (@ 3700 feet gain). It was fun to see how this training has paid off, even if just a little. The scramble up to the top of the Haystack was cool, as it’s been about 4 years or so since I’d been up there. We had an amazingly clear view all the way from Rainier to downtown Seattle and the Olympics, and up to Baker. The plan is to not do Si again, if we can help it - there’s just so much more out there to do…

To catch up, this past Monday Dean and I, along with James and his wife, hustled up Little Si. This spring has provided a real good stretch of decent weather, and it seems wasteful to let these mornings go with no mileage covered… We spent two hours up and down, as the pace was a bit slower than normal, but good times. Good times.


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