Today we hiked Tiger Mountain near Issaquah to train for our Peru trip. It's about 45 minutes from Seattle, so that makes it convenient, but also very busy. When we started a little after 9, the parking lot was already mostly full. The Chirico Trail was built for hang gliders to hike up to two launching pads, one facing south and the other half a mile further up facing north. To get to the trail head you cross the landing zone for the gliders. Here's the warning sign at the entrance.
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| At the landing zone |
The hike is almost 2.5 miles straight up with a 1500 foot gain. Here we are climbing up.
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| Sandra |
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| Nita |
At the south lookout point we saw Mt Ranier, but it doesn't show well in this selfie. We also saw a glider getting ready to take off.
We stopped for a snack at the north lookout. There were lots of people resting here and taking in the view. Here's a photo of us with the valley beyond.
It took us 3 and a half hours to complete the hike and we were pretty sore by the end. We saw a bunch of hang gliders above from the parking lot.
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