We hiked up the old trail on Mt. Si. While the new trail is reported to be the most heavily hiked trail in the State of Washington with approximately 100,000 a year, the old trail is far less traveled. We scrambled up an additional couple hundred feet on the enormous rock formation on the summit popularly called the "Haystack". I have hiked up Mt. Si many times but had never been up on the Haystack, so it was a thrill to do this. The couple on the bottom right of the image give you a sense of the dimensions of this space. The fog was rolling in and out and within moments of taking this photograph, the clouds enveloped the Haystack.

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My friend Wilbur loves rock scrambling. Here, he is enjoying the summit. For him, the scramble to the summit of Mt. Si was nothing. For me, it was a challange, but I am glad I did it!

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We scrambled a couple hundred feet up this gully to the summit of Mt. Si. The fog had rolled back in to obscure the summit when I shot this image.

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The Old Mt. Si trail intersects with the Boulder Garden trail.

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