Mailbox Peak

6/25/2006
Eddy and I
9:50-1:10----1:30-4:00
This trail is about 3 miles long and gains 3926 feet

This is the third time for me to climb Mailbox Peak. It's a clear day. Finally, I can know where the Mailbox peak is. Last two times, I only know that it is in the cloud. The view of Mt. Rainier is great especially after so much climbing.

Flowers on the mountain top is blosoming. Maybe we should go to Bendera Mt. soon. I know the flowers there are great.


















One lesson learned is that one should have brought enough water. It's tough and tiring. Without enough water, it's hardly bearable.

Snow Lake

6/18/2006
Eddy, Kang Xun, Grace and I

Last winter, it had too much snow. In the middle of June, there is still too much snow on the Snow Lake trail. I decided not to continue towards Snow Lake at the fork. Instead, we headed to Source Lake View Point. The lake is quite small. Maybe it only qualifies as a pond.

Everybody felt that it wasn't enough for a exercise. Since we all forget to take our cameras, there are no pictures.

Mailbox Peak

6/13/2006

Mailbox Peak is a brutal trail. Something interesting in:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/112797/hike27.html

"However, having accomplished the hike, you might not want to get out of bed the next day. Plan this hike on a Saturday if your work requires you to show up bright eyed and limber on Monday. However, if you can hike up Mailbox Peak and get out of bed the next day, you are in moderately good condition. If you climbed Mount Si the day before, you are in excellent condition."

It's a cloudy and even raining. Nevertheless, I headed to Mailbox peak trying to prove that I am in excellent condition.

I knew it is hard so I started slow. At trail head, a American hunk passed me easily. However, after 30 minutes, I caught him resting. "Slow and steady win the race", as he says.

I continued upwards for about another one hour. Unfortunately, after crossing a few fallen trees, I saw a red ribbon on a tree. Starting from there, I tried futilely for about half an hour on all the directions. Losting in a mountain with maybe only one other hiker is not funny. I headed back.

Mt. Si

6/12/06
Up: 2 hours and 30 minutes. Down: 2 hours

Mt. Si is the most convinient hiking place. I have been to there every year since I moved to Seattle. I take one week off from work. On Monday, I hiked Mt. Si alone.

It is cloudy but one can still see the downtown Seattle and downtown Bellevue.

Saw a lot of people from Earth Corp working on the trail. Thanks to their hard work, really hard work, the condition of the trail is much better over the years.