Tiger Mountain

We took Tiger (a dog) up Tiger Mountain yesterday. Tiger Mountain is a hiking trail near Seattle commonly used for fitness training. It climbs 2,000 feet in 3 miles. We climbed it in 2 hours (slow, judging by how many others passed up by) and descended in 1 hours, almost exactly.

The trailside foliage is mostly salal and swordfern, which are shaded by hemlocks, alders, and douglas fir. A common tableau was a huckleberry bush growing out of an old moss-covered cedar stump, as illustrated by Tiger's pointing in this photo.

The most common flowers were Trillium ovatum, salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), and Evergreen violet (Viola sempervirens).

My 86-year-old dad did the hike with us. Yup, born in 1920. "When 900 years you reach, look as good, you will not." (Yoda) Maybe it is the carrots.