Weekend Wandering: WA hikes
Maybe due to indolence, maybe to spending most of my weekends selling books, or to my protracted struggle to get my new WIP (Work In Progress) to cooperate, I haven't gotten up to the local mountains as much as I intended this summer. To be precise, I've done one dayhike and two quick overnighters. In this post, and maybe one for next weekend, I'm sharing some of the photos from those trips. Today I'm featuring an overnight hike to Island and Rainbow Lakes, just off of I90. The I90 corridor is hugely popular with Seattlites for the obvious reason that it's a super-short drive. I worked all morning, left my house about 1 p.m., and was on the trail by 2:15. It's hard to beat that. There are several ways to get to Island Lake; I chose the one with the least elevation gain and maybe the least crowded TH. Starting that late in the day meant I had no trouble getting parking, as the early hikers were already leaving. It helped that it was a Wednesday, not a weekend. Ab...