John Completes Soaring Eagle Mountain Biking Trails

John took a goal to bike the entire trail network in Soaring Eagle park. It's a well-marked trail system, with numbers at every intersection of trails, making it somwhat easy to plot out a course. It took six or seven trips before completing all the trails - getting to intersection #18 below was the final segment of trail to complete!

More Hiking in Cougar Mountain

John & Mary Jo continued their hiking in Cougar Mountain park and wrapped up the Harvey Manning portion of the park on a somewhat-spring like April weekend. Flowers are starting to bloom on the trails now, though it still is a bit on the chilly side.

Lookout over Lake Sammamish

Clay Pits - clay from here was used for some of the red brick buildings at UW

New Bike Bridge Opens at Factoria

After more than a year of construction, a bike bridge spanning Factoria Blvd opened at the end of March, and a few days later John and Henry rode across it to test it out. Construction continues on SE 36th Street to extend the trail further east.

Henry riding across the bridge

Visiting Joseph in Palo Alto

In late March, John, Mary Jo, and Henry flew down to San Francisco to visit Joseph at Stanford. We stayed at the Sheraton next to the Stanford campus, and remotely worked/went to school on Friday, before going to dinner Friday night and then spent Saturday in the city, walking along the waterfront and going out to Alcatraz for a self-guided audio tour. It was great weather, with clear blue skies and 70-degree temperatures. We wrapped up the day with a nice dinner in Little Italy, and flew home early on Sunday.

Skiing & Snowshoeing at Summit East

John continued to ski at Snoqualmie East, with another drive up in late March with the snowpack still deep. After skiing a few runs, he snowshoed out on the main nordic trail from East, to a spot over Keechelus Lake. Nice trail, though largely for nordic skiing so not as wide for snowshoes.