Kim, Brian, Bridgid and I went for a hike in the Cougar Mountain area. It’s only about 15 miles from Seattle so it was close enough that I didn’t have to drive too far. Now that I have a car I’m really tired of driving. The weather was perfect for a hike. It was sunny and the air is just starting to get chill.
We hiked about 6 miles in a loop around the Wilderness Peak area. Bridgid and Brian hiked fast and far ahead while Kim and I took a more leisurely pace and enjoyed the views (I’m being sarcastic because there weren’t really any views).
After hiking through a lot of dense, wet, northwest style forests we arrived at Wilderness Peak, which is just a bench at a high point in the middle of the woods with no view. We stopped here to have lunch. We ate the biggest apple that I’ve ever seen. It was so big that it was hard to get your mouth around a piece of it to take the first bite. It fed all four of us and there were left overs. That’s how big it was.
On the way down we found a really odd shaped tree that was just asking to be climbed and straddled. So I did. Then we went home and the weekend was over. I want more weekend.