This is one of my favorite places in the world. I do this hike maybe two or three times a week in the autumn getting ready for the x-country ski season. I generally do it with poles and run part of the way. It's a killer hike. I recently ran into a young woman who'd gone to the top in an hour and twenty minutes. Her round trip would have been around three hours. For a non-athlete, that was a fantastic time. It's about a mile high and from where I'm standing you can see Seattle, Mount Rainier, much of the Cascade Mountain Range, Bellevue, Snoqualmie, and directly below the point where I'm standing, my house. This same mountain was called Mount Gadd in my Mac Fontana series. His house was right on the Snoqualmie River which snakes through this photo.
Jut looking at the photo and thinking about the hike makes me suck air.
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