chumpman Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 i recently started working in enumclaw and am looking for good places to go trail running/hiking after work. any suggestions? Quote
Fairweather Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 Mount Peak. 1100ft vertical gain. You can do multiples as you desire in tennis shoes. It is the big wooded mountain about one mile behind the Safeway store. My work takes me to Enumclaw 3 times per week. Let me know if you need a partner for a run up. Quote
AlpineK Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 I hear there's a lot of goat roping going on out in Enumclaw Quote
Fairweather Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 I don't know about any "goat roping", but there is a beautiful cow named Nellie in the field behind the Ford dealership that has the "AK" brand on its ass and an old step stool nearby. Quote
AlpineK Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 Fairweather said: I don't know about any "goat roping", but there is a beautiful cow named Nellie in the field behind the Ford dealership that has the "AK" brand on its ass and an old step stool nearby. F, I've told you a thousand times quit stealing my branding iron Quote
Dwayner Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 Ditto for what Fairweather says: Mt. Peak (also called by some, Mt. Pete) is a great training hill. Dwayner runs it frequently and his buddy pope is up there several times a week. The main trail on the northside is steep but runnable (about 1.2 miles?) to the top. Lot's of folks carry heavy packs up for training. Some carry forty pounds of water and hit it hard with ski poles to the top and then empty the water out on top so they don't trash their knees on the downhill. There are other steep trails, one even going basically vertically up the side, plus a long private road on the south side. A loop around the base is six miles and it's possible to do a Mt. Pete half-marathon by combining a circumnavigation of the base with two ascents of the peak by different routes. That place rules! - Dwayner Quote
Stefan Posted July 22, 2003 Posted July 22, 2003 If you get bored with Mt. Peak try Baldy Hill. The parking lot is the big parking lot across from the Weyerhaeuser Cascade Operations logging mill. In addition, you could mountain bike on the Weyerhaueser property up to Radio Hill or Boise Ridge. Rainier Timber Company which has property east of Buckley and south of the White River will not allow you on their property--you can't even walk on it. Quote
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