8 June - Old trestle in the forest
Jun. 8th, 2014 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchYes!!! Finally! Actually posting a day's photo ON THAT DAY!!!! Now to see if I can manage to keep it up (ha!).
This afternoon,rackham and I decided to go for a bit of a walk/hike in one of the parks up in Monroe. And yes, we were in search of a Geocache (there's one in the park that's been eluding me, so I was dragging Rackham along to be a fresh pair of eyes). We very quickly ran out of a wide trail and ended up doing a bit of bushwhacking (as those who follow me on Facebook will already know, because I complained about being an idiot who persists in wearing shorts while hiking in areas prone to stinging nettles... ouch!).
As we walked up to this spot, Rackham actually broke out into a bad Jacque Cousteau impression: "Ze forest, she is teeming with life... but all around zere are signs of man." Hee! This is one of the old train trestles... that used to lead to bridge over the Skykomish River (which is loooong gone now).
To give you an idea... this trestle stands at *least* 12 feet off the forest floor (I took the photo from the top of a nearby hill). Rather cool to run across these things still standing. And no, we still had no luck finding the cache we were after, but it made for a fun hike and took us past this cool spot.
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
This afternoon,
rackham and I decided to go for a bit of a walk/hike in one of the parks up in Monroe. And yes, we were in search of a Geocache (there's one in the park that's been eluding me, so I was dragging Rackham along to be a fresh pair of eyes). We very quickly ran out of a wide trail and ended up doing a bit of bushwhacking (as those who follow me on Facebook will already know, because I complained about being an idiot who persists in wearing shorts while hiking in areas prone to stinging nettles... ouch!).As we walked up to this spot, Rackham actually broke out into a bad Jacque Cousteau impression: "Ze forest, she is teeming with life... but all around zere are signs of man." Hee! This is one of the old train trestles... that used to lead to bridge over the Skykomish River (which is loooong gone now).
To give you an idea... this trestle stands at *least* 12 feet off the forest floor (I took the photo from the top of a nearby hill). Rather cool to run across these things still standing. And no, we still had no luck finding the cache we were after, but it made for a fun hike and took us past this cool spot.
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
