Fall Hiking Recap

To extend the hiking usefulness of this blog, I thought I'd go back and recap the hikes we did in September and October of 2009 before jumping into what we're doing in 2010.

We had a few more Olympic Peninsula hiking weekends. In mid-September we base camped in Port Angeles and hiked Hurricane Hill on Friday - 3.5 miles round trip, moderately difficult with the girls in backpacks. Saturday we joined up with Aunts Clare, Jack, and Beth to do the Little Divide Loop that took us 11.5 miles, ending at the Sol Duc Falls. On Sunday we took Aunt Beth and the girls up to hike the Mount Angeles Saddle off of Hurricane Ridge. We only went about 3 miles roundtrip before heading back home again.
September - Olympic Peninsula Photos

The first weekend in October we took advantage of the weather and hiked Colonel Bob from the Pete's Creek Trailhead with Aunts Beth and Jack. It's a pretty tough 8.2 mile roundtrip trek, but the views from the top are spectacular.

Marty and I also did a few hikes a little closer to home in September - Lake Melakwa, a 9 mile roundtrip hike up past the Denny Creek waterfalls to an alpine lake. It was foggy the day we went, so there wasn't much lake to see, but the hike was still a good challenge. I also got to hike to the top of Mt. Si for the first time in September, so that was nice to check off my "to hike" list. It's 8 miles roundtrip with almost 4,000-ft elevation gain.

I'll try to get some more photos posted soon.