The kids stayed with us on Saturday night and Jan took them into Seattle on the bus for a fun day at the Art Museum, Aquarium and the big ferris wheel downtown. That left the door open for me and Derek to plan a hike.
We were going to do Dirty Harry’s Peak, a hike neither of us had ever done (although I have been to Dirty Harry’s Balcony) but when we got to the parking lot it was full.
So we drove back down the road 1/2 mile to the parking lot we use when we hike Change Creek. We were the only car in the lot.
We were not sure how far we could get, given the possibility of difficult snow conditions, but basically we just kept pushing on and dealing with whatever the trail threw at us.
There was definitely a lot of deep snow but it was consolidated and we rarely post-holed. We spent most of the time in the snow walking on top.
And what a nice hike. We wound up, per the Garmin (which seems a little heavy on the elevation gain) doing 10.9 miles and about 4,500 feet of elevation gain. It surely felt like it.
This part of the world is outstanding:
This was a terrific workout. In fact, we were pretty exhausted at the end but that’s the way it goes when you do this kind of thing.
Here is a look at our track via GPSVisualizer.com:
Definitely a fun hike!