Although we were sad to say goodbye to our foster dog Suki, we are so happy that we she has joined Team Mindawg and will spend the rest of her life being as spoiled as she deserves to be. We had an awesome weekend exploring some of Seattle and Tacoma's best spots and thanks to the 85 degree weather had a chance to hike up so Team Mindawg could find the Washington Ape Cache. This photo shows Suki standing in triumph atop the cache. Most of the trail was still in 2' plus deep snow, so we were pretty wet after hiking, but it was worth it.
We even managed to find a waymark for a new category and will log visits to some of the many waymarks within the Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. (Dang you US.Globetrotters for waymarking the news stand!) The yearly cheese festival was going on in the market, which was fun (I'll try to waymark it in the festival category soon) and Team Mindawg was able to meet up with a friend at the Pike Place Starbucks location (first Starbucks store).
Hopefully they will come back and visit us soon and we can take them to some of the other awesome spots in Washington.
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Oh sure, now I'll have to make that long scary walk through the tunnel by myself. I was hoping that when I visit (probably not until at least next year) that you would be my tour guide to the APE cache. Being that you've gone at least twice now, surely you wouldn't want to do it again. ;)
Oh, we don't go the tunnel route. I hate that damn tunnel - I mean 2 1/2 miles in a pitch black tunnel that drips water down your back? No thanks. We take the Annette Lake trailhead and then cut over on the Iron Horse trail. It makes for about a 6 mile round trip hike with beautiful scenery. The tunnel is closed about 7 months of the year anyway because of the dangerous icicles inside.
In a year I'm sure we'll be ready for another Ape Cache hike. As long as it's not in the snow, then I'm good to go. We kept dropping through the melting snow up to our thighs. In April snow shoes would have worked, but there were too many sections of dry trail under the trees for snow shoes to work at this point.
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