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4runnerguy wrote:
Thanks all for your input. Sounds like WA 20 may be our choice.profdant139 wrote:Nice blog post. It's interesting that you did some of the same hikes I have put in our list of things to do.
Try to spend as much time as you can along 20 -- many, many world-class day hikes in North Cascades NP. Great backpacking, too, although I have never done it.
Part of our trip planning is to mix days of mountain biking and days of hiking. I found this amazing website on hikes in Washington:
Washington Hike Map
The trouble is we only have maybe 10 days in WA so trying to narrow the right hikes down is pretty tough with all the choices.
I do wish I could find a similarly high quality resource like the Washington Hiking Map for other states too. Well done site.
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Nov-18-2019 07:35 AM
profdant139 wrote:Thanks for the heads up. We'll keep an eye out as we're hiking. I imagine they grow at lower elevations rather than further up the mountain trail? We have a variety of different berries around us here in Colorado but I've never heard of anyone finding blackberries.
If you are in Washington later in July, the wild blackberries may be ripe, especially at the lower elevations. Bring leather gloves, ziplock bags, and long sleeves. Major thorns. But incredibly delicious -- the fresh picked stuff tastes nothing like store-bought berries.
Nov-17-2019 08:03 PM
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paulj wrote:More and more places are getting to be mountain bike meccas. Towns now realize that mountain bikers aren't just a bunch of 20 y.o. stoners but a good number of older riders who spend money in town. In some ways figuring out which hikes to do is easier than which mountain bike trail systems to visit.
The Winthrop area is a mtn biking mecca - not bad for road bikes and fat/snow riding as well.
On the phone, the MTB Project app is handy. There's also a hiking version.
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Nov-16-2019 09:27 AM
profdant139 wrote:Nice blog post. It's interesting that you did some of the same hikes I have put in our list of things to do.
Try to spend as much time as you can along 20 -- many, many world-class day hikes in North Cascades NP. Great backpacking, too, although I have never done it.
Nov-15-2019 06:37 PM
profdant139 wrote:
Try to spend as much time as you can along 20 -- many, many world-class day hikes in North Cascades NP. Great backpacking, too, although I have never done it.
This blog post may be of some interest:
North Cascades
This is what the area looked like in September a few years ago -- July is probably even nicer:
Click For Full-Size Image.
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