Little Si -- Andreas

Where: Little Si, North Bend, WA
When: Friday May 15th, 2009
With: Andreas
Goal: Get a small hike in so we still had time to work

[Andreas has photos, I didn’t bring my camera, although I did bring my brand new Black Diamond backpack—an early birthday present!]

It was a prime Friday with the sun beckoning one outdoors. I’ve found you get much less work accomplished when you’re staring out the window drooling about the outdoors, versus working later at night when its dark and you forget the wilderness (slightly).

Andreas and I are also a bad influence on eachother when it comes to being outdoors.

I suggested a small hike, so we’d have plenty of time to get back to work. We settled on Little Si since it was close to Seattle and neither of us had done it. We knew Mt Si was a good workout and we figured Little Si would be similar.

Little Si is a 5 mile hike. As www.mountsi.com says (reading in retrospect): Hard-core hikers might think of Little Si as a desperation hike for the rare occasions …. They were right.

We quickly summitted and were left wanting more. We were rather confused. We had heard Little Si was a nice hike. Instead we felt cheated, a nice hike for your grandmother maybe. We wished there was a bridge to Mount Si so we could summit that. It was decided that going to the bottom of Little Si to then climb Mount Si would be a little excessive, and that it would ruin our idea of a short hike and we wouldn't be able to get back to work.

We collected our sad hearts and stopped at an ice cream joint on the way home. Sadly, we didn’t even feel justified in our ice cream earnings. Fortunately, the ice cream tasted satisfying nonetheless.