Once Upon A Time

When I first heard of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, I thought it would be a defined path across King County.  It turns out that the term "greenway" is so vague as to be meaningless.  The Greenway covers a wide area and includes trails, roads, lakes, farms, mountains, and even cities.  But by the time I figured that out, the idea of walking across the county had captured my imagination.

Long ago I thought about hiking the Cascade Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.  I soon realized that it would require more time and money than I had, and I'm pretty sure that even hiking in the mountains would get tedious after a while.  So I set the idea aside for a while.  A long while...

A few decades later I heard of the Mountains to Sound Greenway.  After some thought, I asked my walking partner Lisa what she thought of the idea of doing a series of 5 mile day hikes from Snoqualmie pass to Puget Sound on abandoned railroad grades.  She went for it.

And so our adventure begins.  Hold on to your hats...

Hello Darkness my old friend...
Lisa and John entering the dwarf kingdom of Moria.  Or maybe it's the East entrance of the Snoqualmie Tunnel.  I always get those two places mixed up.