What: Lake Tallipus/Ollalie Lake
When: Monday, Sept 27th, 2009
Krista was up visiting on her layover from Vermont to Alaska. Since this was her vacation (and she had been to Seattle before, seeing "the sites") we decided to get out into the wilderness, while staying away from anything "hardcore."
As the guidebook claims, if we went on the Lake Tallipus hike, we would dance the laid-back switchback shuffle. [They were TOTALLY right].
Andreas, anxious to test out his new 70L First Ascent pack (another buy from Rainier Festival), packed in about 40lbs. I packed water and "summit treats" (chocolate chip oatmeal peanut butter cookies--yea, that's right).
It was a perfect hike. Not too many people (ok, it was a Monday), but it was definitely a great way to have a conversation without getting out of breath. We called the hike: mellow, peaceful/tranquil (no traffic sounds!), and other synonomous words.
Krista took some photos...
Alison designating Andreas as trail leader
Mushroom. Remember, red is most likely to be poisonous.
Lake Tallipus
We were able to climb over some of the fallen trees for an extra bit of excitement.
Krista was as amazed at the 'hairy trees' as I was when I first came to Washington. Turns out, this is actually totally the norm.
Lake Ollalie
Side Note: I had done this hike before, with VTAlan. Alan likes to walk ahead of people. I like to walk to the side. So whenever I would increase speed to be beside him, he would increase speed to be ahead. Before we knew it we were basically running up the hill and were breathing hard. It was a good laugh when we realized this.
This time we took a great slow pace and were able to comfortably pick on eachother the entire way.
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