TR: Taylor River Trail/Lk Snoqualmie

“Pics: http://photobucket.com/albums/v241/pixalu/Lk%20Snoqualmie/?

On Friday we drove out to Cle Elum and met with Rat Packer’s nephew and his wife at the Mexican place. We had dinner with them. Then we followed them back to their place and dropped our stuff and met their super cute doggy. Then we went to Roslyn (8 mins away) to the Brick (the bar on Northern Exposure) to see the band Derby.
Next morn we were up bright and early. After visiting with their horses we went to breakfast. After a quick stop at Safeway, where I found Arrowhead water in tiny 6 oz bottles, perfect for bringing my Bailey's, we headed out to the trail.
The first 7 miles of the trail (Taylor River Trail) is very touristy, due to being nearly flat, wide and has 3 very nice waterfalls on them. We had lunch at the third waterfall, where some scoutmaster guy marveled at all the crap I was carrying. (For some reason lately, I've been bringing the kitchen sink!) Then we pressed on for the last mile to the Snoqualmie Lk trailhead. The trail was rugged. Most of the trail was in creek/runoff beds. Rocky and wet. The old boardwalks were very very rotted and Rat Packer stepped on a "see-saw" one and nearly broke his ankle. Both of us fell at one point or another. (An exposed sharp root grabbed and held tight to my shoe until I literally fell over trying to pull my foot loose.) The big stream crossings had no bridges. Just really bad/slick logs someone threw across. I slipped and nearly fell on the one that was 5+ feet over the creek bed. But a mile from the lake there is a super cool canyon with the water rushing forcefull down through carved out HUGE boulders. Saw not a soul on the trail. Totally quiet
At the lake we passed a campsite with typical Seattle grunge rocker types with a big car camp style dome tent (who later entertained us with a variety of strange foreign instruments and drums.) Our campsite beyond theirs was really nice. Secluded in trees on the edge of a steep bank above the lake. There we settled down to some dinner at the little fire that I built (yup I built it and it was nice!)
I slept like crap, because I was cold (as usual) and I had nightmares all night long. : (
In the morning we had some breakfast and decided to check out the rest of the lake. The trail unfortunately does not go back down to the shore at any point, but continues to the other lakes onto Lk Dorothy (where we were last week on our day hike) We approached Lk Dorothy from the North on Hwy 2 last week. This time we were coming from the South, from I-90. We've determined it would make a super cool easy thru hike.
We hiked out. Saw only 2 other people on their way to the lake and about 25 on the Taylor River Trail section. LOL!
On the way home we stopped at North Bend for some beer, onion rings and fried prawns. Mmm. Then to make myself ruin my diet further, I had a chocolate malt from Scott's Dairy Freeze. : p”

“Sorry it's late folks. I'm having trouble with my wireless internet. The WiFi gadget, server thingy is upstairs in my friend's house and it always needs to be reset, but I can't exactly just go do it myself. It's a pain!”

“Nice pics and TR, pix...”

“nic pics pixie but it would have been better if you were in them ;)”

“Nice report and pics!”

“Pixie isn't in the pics? Then I guess I'm not missing anything cause work Proxies photobucket :D”

“No Pixie! No Pictures!
No Pixie! No Pictures!
No Pixie! No Pictures!
No Pixie! No Pictures!
No Pixie! No Pictures! ;-)”

“That's more like it! LOL”

“Ok, settle down folks.
I'll get Rat Packer to send me what he's got. He usually gets the pics of me and vice verse. And I had my TT shirt on that trip too!”

“Setz deinen Arsch in Bewegung!”

“Get my a$$ moving?”

“Well there were several other phrases I would have prefered to use but this is a family board...”

“Pixie Pics will soon be available... for a low $39.95 a month access fee! Just kidding;) I will get some up as soon as I "touch them up a little". Oh, and thanks Pixie for changing my name.”

“DDX's foree into German reminds me of this little tidbit: Mozart's "Leck mich im Arsch" canons

Perhaps Gemini can provide a full translation?”

“No problem. Do you still have Matt the Rat aka Ratty?”

“Pix ain't worth $39.95. Maybe if you charged about $9.95?”

“Gee. Thanks. (sniff sniff)


bit do you have another tissue?”

“DDX, DDX, DDX......I don't know about you.

pixie dear, you are worth ever bit of at least $39.96. ;-)”

“Thanks Stovie. (dabbing tears from eyes)”

“Oh pixie.. I know not what I say! I take it back! Woe is me... I thought we were talking about.. um... Kev... yeah... that's it. That's the ticket! Let me send you an e-mail... as an apology...”

“DX Thanx for the Xmas ornament!!!”

“Did you like it? I bought one for myself but I broke it putting it up this year :(”

“LOL!”

“Hey... it wasn't funny. That was a $12 ornament! Every other ornament on my tree were $1 specials at most :( Cept the one Divinity gave me of course :)”

“Dude I was kidding I never got one from you at all I was being sarcastic!”

“Here are the Pixie Pics I promised. Pixie forgot to share with all of you the important lesson she learned about Cairns. Pixie?”

“Those are great Rat Packer!

Cairns are to be loosely interpreted. LOL!

(Ok, ok, I'm a little stubborn.)

Jesus! I didn't realize how scary my pack looked! No wonder that guy was in awe. In that one picture, you can't even see me under the pack! But where is the pic of my TT shirt!?! : ( Oh, yeah, your camera died at the end. I'll wear it next trip!”

“I'm making the funniest face there! That's my "Brrrrr! It's f$%@ing cold!" face. LOL!”

“That was my favorite!”

“Nice... leg...”