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August 12, 2007
Hot Hot Hot
Seattle wasn't as beautiful this trip. Sorta muggy and overcast the entire trip. I wasn't sure what the deal was with work which tripped me out... but I did get to have a nice dinner with my friends up there. We had a lovely bottle of Ehlers cab over dinner and some great conversation. I found it funny because these are "friends" from my professional world. I'm not really working with them right now but we still always get together for dinner or drinks and that makes it more like friends. They were hiking up Mt. Rainier today and invited me along... I would really have liked to do that hike but I had to come home... raincheck.
Friday night saw me at a sorta house party... tried some new things but it didn't seem to work for me. I did manage to practice on Friday though... an awesome ego-filled physical practice (sometimes those rock too).
Saturday we took the ferry over to somewhere :) Landed in Kingston and drove a couple hours out to the Olympic National Park and the hot springs up there. Man, the drive up alone just rocked... beautiful little towns and seedy motels too. Satellite radio on... road trip. When we finally reached the literal end of the road for the hike up to the hot springs it was about 3pm. I bought new Solomons with GorTex last week so I was stoked to try them out but the hike was mostly asphalt :( I did however fall off a rock into a stream, landed my whole foot in the water and, you know what!? They were dry. Awesome.
We got to the hot springs..what a beautiful walk. HUGE green trees and beautiful, beautiful scenery. The sound of rolling water for most of it. We climbed up to the very top hot spring... it was up not-well-defined path (no asphalt :>) and found a pool all to ourselves. A small waterfall flowed into the bath. The water was hot. Lovely.
After the hike back, we worried whether there would be a ferry to take us back across... but we caught the 10pm one and cruised into Seattle somewhere around midnight. Such a great day. I love the whole hike to water, relax, hike back deal. I gotta find some of those around here.
Ah....
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