Ah, Spring is here. Or was, for a few hours. The trail up Little Si outside of North Bend was where Seattlest spent our paltry ration of good Spring weather Saturday morning. This hike is only five miles long, close to Seattle and the highway, and has a known payoff: a wide, 180 degree view of the Snoqualmie valley and the neighboring Mount Si that isn't really subject to interference by weather or foliage. Those are great things that recommend the hike highly, but they also mean you have to really work to be alone-ish anywhere on the trail, particularly now when a lot of other I-90 hikes are still snowed in. And it's Saturday morning. And one of the first cooperative Saturday mornings of the Spring, weather wise.
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