Hiking, take 3

On Saturday morning, Tim and I got up at our usually "late" wake up time of about 6.15am. We wanted to go hike again since we were dog free but the weather is so crappy here (#*$&#!) that we were fairly limited on where we could go given that this girl did NOT want to deal with snow. We didn't really want to do Mount Si again since we've done that the last couple of weekends in a row. So, we settled on Rattlesnake ridge, an old favorite... with a twist! We decided we'd keep going up on Rattlesnake instead of stopping on the ridge... so essentially we did the Snoqualmie point trail.

After a stop at Ladro for our infamous tea and cookies, we got out to the mountains and started the hike in the FREEZING cold "summer" day.

A picture of Tim about 5 miles in.

And a picture of me... see, wearing a beanie and fleece! What. in. the. hell. IT IS JUNE!!!

A shot of a cool looking part of the trail in the fog. Once again, we were DRENCHED from essentially walking through the clouds.

Doesn't this sort of look like we are walking dead into the twilight zone or something?

On a quick water break, sitting on the weird fence in the middle of the trail.

And Tim playing tree man or something. He wore his new toe shoes for the ENTIRE hike. Brave guy. I would not do the same.

Awesome mossy tree... the green seemed so vibrant (and the above is just an iphone photo too!)

And more of the mossy part of the woods...cool!

Coming back down, we stopped at the Rattlesnake ledge where the clouds were TRYING to break up.

What? What is that shiny yellow stuff? No WAY, sun?! At the VERY end of our 9 mile hike, the sun FINALLY broke through. Awesome!

Since the sun was out at the mountains, we assumed that it had broken through back by the lake so the weather people were right and we might actually be able to lay out at the beach that afternoon. So I changed into all of my actual summer gear (swim suit, short skirt, flip flops) and was READY to hit the beach. No dice. It was cloudy as all get out back at our home turf and the sun didn't break through until about 4pm. We opted instead to snack in the car on the way home and once we saw the clouds, we just hung around at home before heading out to pick up Bella and then having a Saturday date night at one of our favorite wine bars/restaurants in town.

Tim eating a PB&J.... a sandwich that I made before we left for the hike, in which I may or may not have eaten copious amounts of peanut butter. Seriously, like I said in an earlier post: might need a nut butter intervention.

All in all, the hike was actually really awesome, much to our surprise. Not too challenging but fairly long. It was a great way to spend the day!