Mt Si - Hike #17

Date: 06/21/2008
Close by: Off of I-90, NorthBend
Distance: 8 miles rountrip
Beginning Elevation: around 900 ft
Ending Elevation: 3900 ft

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This is my second time hiking Mt Si this year. Unlike last time, the trail was like a theme park-filled with so many people. It was an awesome weather to be out and most of the hikers nearby decided to come here to kick start their hiking season. (pillaiyar sulli !!)
This is the first hike that I and my wife are doing alone without our hiking friends. I was a little hesitant to take her with me, But to my surprise she finished the hike and in fact hiked higher than my last time.

An interesting thing happened in the hike. We met a guy who was hiking with his 7 year old son. He introduced himself as Howard and inquired where we were from. As soon as we said we are from India, he started telling too many stories about Indian culture and Indian films. That guy seems to know a lot of information. He had visited India couple of times and liked it a lot. He started to even talk about four types and Vedas, but we weren’t able to keep up with his pace so he had bid us good bye.

After a number of halts, we finally reached the top. The view from the mountain was wonderful. We were able to see the west side too for the first time. There were too many people near the haystack and we both found ourselves a good spot to sit and eat the sandwich and Morkolambu-Urugai , a great combination which definitely bet the sandwich hands down.
After spending close to an hour enjoying the view, we started our hike back. The hike down made us tired more than the way up.