Mountain Biking in Black Diamond

Saturday morning Joseph, Henry, and I went down to Black Diamond to get some mountain biking in. It was a nice morning, but the weather was supposed to turn later in the afternoon. Instead the rain came a little earlier and we got a bit wet. Nice ride though!

Hiking the Rim of Yakima Canyon

Late May saw sunny weekdays but rainy weekends. So on Sunday we drove to the other side of the mountains to get some much-needed sunshine - Yakima was sunny and 70s all day. Joseph, MJ, and I drove out and took a six-mile hike up to the rim of the canyon and along it. Very nice hike!

Hike to Baring Lake

Joseph and Dad took a hike outside of Index, Washington that we had done the very first summer we were in Seattle, 2010 - a 4.4 mile round-trip hike to a lake surrounded by sharp mountains. Not too much of an elevation gain, the hardest part was getting over, under, or around the many trees that had fallen across the trail.

Bike Ride Back-And-Forth Across Lake Washington

Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, Joseph, Henry and Dad biked from home across the I-90 bridge, up along Lake Washington Blvd in Seattle through the Arboretum and then back to Bellevue across the 520 bridge, down to Factoria Mall where Mom picked us up.

A little more than 23 miles and a two-hour ride.

Hike to Little Mashel Falls

The day before Mothers' Day, Washington State started tentative steps to start re-opening, with some outdoors areas opening. Most were still closed, but we drove down to Eatonville, in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, to do a nice 5-mile hike to a set of waterfalls.

The trail was fairly crowded, as it was a beautiful day - sunny and temperatures in the 80s.

To get to the end of the hike you had to navigate across a log across the creek.

Right after taking this video of Jack successfully getting 

across, I fell in on my attempt!