We took a little hike up to the Big Four Ice Caves this afternoon. I had never even heard of them before, but A.J. went when he was younger and said they were really cool, which they totally were! This is another in the wide variety of hikes available in the Mt. Baker / Snoqualmie National Forest!
This is another hike in the Mt Baker / Snoqualmie National Forest – there are some great waterfalls up there!
We hiked along the Lake 22 trail in the National Forest up by Granite Falls. This was one of the waterfalls along the trail. It was pretty chilly, and there was still some snow on the ground, but it was a lot of fun! There are many more trails in that area that we’ll explore later this summer… When the roads are open and the snow melts!
We drove up into Springbrook National Park yesterday and headed straight for Jem’s favorite lookout, aptly titled “Best of All” Lookout. This is what we found there…. A giant cloud, and we were standing right in the middle of it. Even though we couldn’t see the supposedly beautiful scenery, it was still pretty amazing since it was so dense that we couldn’t see anything at all. It was actually a little eerie, like we were literally on the edge of reality and the whole world ended right there in a white haze.
After this lookout, we came back down the mountains a bit and found a number of other lookouts that we could actually look out from, and they were quite pretty.
Yesterday we hiked up to the lookout at Mt. Coo-tha with Anna and Jem. It was a fairly short hike, but just hard enough to really feel like a workout. It was great!
We walked out on the Dungeness Spit yesterday… We only made it almost 1 of the 5 miles available, but it was fun and really pretty. We also saw a bunch of deer while driving through the wilderness area to get to the spit trailhead, and there were some pretty lookout points too.
Here’s one of the tide pool inhabitants!
We drove out to the Salt Creek Recreation Area this morning (after A.J. flew in on Kenmore Air). This is a picture of the rocky shore at the water’s edge where there are fantastic tide pools with all sorts of crazy critters in them!
