Mt. Si the Hard Way

Today we climbed Mt. Si again - me, Doreen, and Lucy. We had a lot of rain and a warming trend, so a lot of the snow was gone.

As soon as we started hiking, I felt like I was dragging a big log behind me. Every step was really hard, and I was aching like my muscles were in an anaerobic state. We kept going and going, but I could not believe how hard it was. Last week when we climbed the same mountain in the snow it was a breeze. We figured it all out later (when Doreen came down with similar conditions a few days after) that I was experiencing some side effects from the yellow fever vaccination I got a few days earlier.

We got to the top anyway. We had a little lunch and hung out in the warm sun. We were treated to a really cool view of the Puget Sound area. There was a temperature inversion going on, which left cold temperatures down at sea level and much warmer temperatures up at higher elevations. There was a thick layer of fog down across the entire Puget Sound area, and all higher elevations were clear, sunny and warm.

If you click on the photo, you'll see the little tiny city of Seattle popping up out of the fog, and the Olympic Mts. in all their glory behind a fog-filled Puget Sound.