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solarbirdThirty three miles. For me, that's a lot of biking.
I have to say, Burke-Gilman on the eastside is a lot easier than Burke-Gilman on the Seattle side - it's just so flat. 16 miles times two felt like more than the eight to my studio, but not like a lot more. On the way back, I'd pedal hard briefly, and then could stand-coast for a while and look further than I could sitting. It was fun.
Cool discoveries/verifications:
1. The bike to McLendon's Hardware in Woodinville is easier - also closer, more like seven miles than eight - than I'd thought it would be. And it felt like a four-mile ride on the Seattle side, since there's no Long Uphill. This means I have a good hardware and garden-supplies store in easier biking range than True Value in Seattle, which is hardware-only, and Ravenna Gardens (same), which is small and mostly about furniture and ornaments, and not supplies. This may be useful later.
2. Feral chickens are still cool. We saw and/or heard something like 14 or 15, I lost count. (I saw more when I darted ahead of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annathepiper.) I think we saw quail, too, but I'm not sure. But the cutest animals were the goslings, all fuzzy and grey and with useless little wings flapping about going <cheep!>. ^_^
3. Since I don't like beer, this isn't that interesting to me, but may be to others: I didn't know Red Hook Brewery was on the trail. I was also surprised to spot the placepoodlgrl likes to go for you-cut Christmas trees, visible from the trail at one point.
4. If you hop off the trail at this one park in Woodinville, you can bike right over to downtown. This may also be useful later. Biking to a matinee wouldn't be out of the question, and might even be fun. ^_^ It's further than McLendon's, but not that bad.
5. There is a very friendly cat who hangs out at a couple of picnic tables near the south end of Woodinville's part of the trail. She also has a brush you can pet her with if you want, and is friendly. We stopped and petted her each time, and she remembered us the second time. ^_^
6. Tolt Pipeline Trail intersects Burke Gilman not far from the Cat Picnic Table. After that, some other, less interesting trails intersect there too.
I'm confused about whether Burke-Gilman is the actual proper name for the trail once it hits Bothell. There's this place where the trail does a hard left turn and continues forward - it's a Y - and the left fork takes you to Bothell and then Woodinville, but the right fork looks a hell of a lot more like a railroad right-of-way. Anybody know?
[EDIT: The hard turn left leads to what eventually becomes the Sammamish River Trail. But the continuation of B-G at the bridge (if that's what that is) isn't even on the trail map I have. I think that the old Burke-Gilman railroad might have stopped at Bothell, but I'm not sure of that at all - maybe that part just goes to where the rail station used to be, and it's just an access spur for the diverted trail now. Anybody know?]
7. Klingons are good food!
8. Oh wait, topic. Um. I had another one. The ride through Bothell is fun, we saw a heron. ^_^ The people in that one trailer park at the eastern end of Bothell have the best trailers in the world. Not many trailers can have docks, but many of these do. To wit: bitchin'.
9. Also, the slough from Bothell to Lake Sam looks seriously canoeable. There's one or two places where the flow looks like it might be enough that you notice, and that's about as difficult as it gets. I'm surprised I didn't see more people canoeing on it today - I only saw two groups, and a third in a motorised inflatable of some sort.
Miles today: 33. Hobbit ass has been officially kicked.
Miles out of Hobbiton: 196.6
Miles to Rivendell: 261.4
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I have to say, Burke-Gilman on the eastside is a lot easier than Burke-Gilman on the Seattle side - it's just so flat. 16 miles times two felt like more than the eight to my studio, but not like a lot more. On the way back, I'd pedal hard briefly, and then could stand-coast for a while and look further than I could sitting. It was fun.
Cool discoveries/verifications:
1. The bike to McLendon's Hardware in Woodinville is easier - also closer, more like seven miles than eight - than I'd thought it would be. And it felt like a four-mile ride on the Seattle side, since there's no Long Uphill. This means I have a good hardware and garden-supplies store in easier biking range than True Value in Seattle, which is hardware-only, and Ravenna Gardens (same), which is small and mostly about furniture and ornaments, and not supplies. This may be useful later.
2. Feral chickens are still cool. We saw and/or heard something like 14 or 15, I lost count. (I saw more when I darted ahead of
annathepiper.) I think we saw quail, too, but I'm not sure. But the cutest animals were the goslings, all fuzzy and grey and with useless little wings flapping about going <cheep!>. ^_^3. Since I don't like beer, this isn't that interesting to me, but may be to others: I didn't know Red Hook Brewery was on the trail. I was also surprised to spot the place
poodlgrl likes to go for you-cut Christmas trees, visible from the trail at one point.4. If you hop off the trail at this one park in Woodinville, you can bike right over to downtown. This may also be useful later. Biking to a matinee wouldn't be out of the question, and might even be fun. ^_^ It's further than McLendon's, but not that bad.
5. There is a very friendly cat who hangs out at a couple of picnic tables near the south end of Woodinville's part of the trail. She also has a brush you can pet her with if you want, and is friendly. We stopped and petted her each time, and she remembered us the second time. ^_^
6. Tolt Pipeline Trail intersects Burke Gilman not far from the Cat Picnic Table. After that, some other, less interesting trails intersect there too.
I'm confused about whether Burke-Gilman is the actual proper name for the trail once it hits Bothell. There's this place where the trail does a hard left turn and continues forward - it's a Y - and the left fork takes you to Bothell and then Woodinville, but the right fork looks a hell of a lot more like a railroad right-of-way. Anybody know?
[EDIT: The hard turn left leads to what eventually becomes the Sammamish River Trail. But the continuation of B-G at the bridge (if that's what that is) isn't even on the trail map I have. I think that the old Burke-Gilman railroad might have stopped at Bothell, but I'm not sure of that at all - maybe that part just goes to where the rail station used to be, and it's just an access spur for the diverted trail now. Anybody know?]
7. Klingons are good food!
8. Oh wait, topic. Um. I had another one. The ride through Bothell is fun, we saw a heron. ^_^ The people in that one trailer park at the eastern end of Bothell have the best trailers in the world. Not many trailers can have docks, but many of these do. To wit: bitchin'.
9. Also, the slough from Bothell to Lake Sam looks seriously canoeable. There's one or two places where the flow looks like it might be enough that you notice, and that's about as difficult as it gets. I'm surprised I didn't see more people canoeing on it today - I only saw two groups, and a third in a motorised inflatable of some sort.
Miles today: 33. Hobbit ass has been officially kicked.
Miles out of Hobbiton: 196.6
Miles to Rivendell: 261.4
You Are The Key Character
"It's what I was meant to do."
You are the true enigma. No one knows much about you, you do not understand much of yourself, and your life seems to carry no purpose. Yet regardless of everything around you - everyone knows that you are here for some reason, even if no one yet knows what that is. Things seem to simply fall into place for you. Almost as though some force is working either through you, for you, or around you. No matter your troubles, ou have been sent here to unlock something. This is your destiny.
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Date: 2005-05-31 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-31 03:19 pm (UTC)Tho' I'm also including walking in the tally. I figure the path isn't always something you can bike, even if it is a dual-purpose (mountain and touring) bike.
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Date: 2005-05-31 03:39 pm (UTC)The main trail along the river on the Eastside is the Sammamish River Trail. There's a spur that goes toward UW Bothell-Cascadia. I haven't been the other way along the trail in a while, but I seem to recall that the other spur passes by some apartments and peters out after a while. King County has a comprehensive bicycle map if you want to look up the details.
I've seen the cat near Woodinville once when I was walking the trail with my mom. There's also a fluffy orange one that likes to hang out in Redmond.
Q and I have actually biked to Red Hook Brewery and back before, with lunch in between. It's 8 miles from Bothell Landing, so it's a nice weekend trip.
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Date: 2005-05-31 03:54 pm (UTC)Yeah, I did that last night - I have it in PDF form - which is how I found the name (Sammamish River Trail) that I mentioned in the edit. It makes sense that that is where the name actually changes. (You'd think there'd be a sign, though. I wonder why there isn't?)
The spur isn't even on the map, though; on the map, it's just a hard turn and an arrow indicating a "major trail access point," without showing where that access point goes.
I still think that bridge is the original route of the Burke-Gilman railroad. I just can't prove it yet. ^_^
(In ref. Brewery: Four miles each way, total of eight, right? Because it's not eight miles down to there one way. I'm a little shaky on the distances with no bike frob, but not that shaky. ^_^ )
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