July 13, 2008

• Olallie State Park

  Today was a perfect day for hiking, so we bundled the dogs in the car and headed for the mountains.  Of course, we had to stop for breakfast at our favourite place, the 12th Avenue diner.  It’s a family-owned type of diner that serves comfort food and of course, great breakfasts.  Their house special is the “Montana” which is potatoes, bacon, ham, green pepper, tomatoes and onion all sauteed together and topped with chesse, sour cream and green onion.  It’s wonderful.  I have mine without the onion and the sour cream on the side.  This was my breakfast this morning.  Keep in mind they offer the Montana in different sizes and this is the small:

  

  
  
  

  After breakfast, we headed to Olallie State Park.  I’d wanted to go because I’d read there were a couple nice waterfalls there – Weeks Falls and Twin Falls.  Of course, the view from the parking lot alone was beautiful.

  

  I don’t think this is a named falls, but it’s almost literally right next to the parking lot.  Tesla couldn’t wait to go have a drink.

  

  Diablo quickly followed.

  

  After about a mile and a half of hiking (during which I neglected to take any pictures, we came across Weeks Falls.  These pictures were taken from an 80 foot river spanning one of the forks of the Snoqualmie River.

  

  

  Looking downstream from Weeks Falls.

  

  Twin Falls.

  

  

  The trail on the way back (I remember to take pictures this time).

  

  After all that hiking, the boys were kind of hot, so we found a place just upstream where the boys could cool down a bit.  I’m betting Tesla thought that he’d discovered another branch of Lake Huron.  He didn’t hesitate getting in the water.

  

  Diablo wasn’t quite as sure, especially when the water level went above his feet.

  

  

  

  I think this is my favourite picture of the day.

  

  It was a nice, fun little hike.  We could tell the path that we took was one of the less travelled – we had no problem finding parking, and the first quarter mile of the Twin Falls trail was almost overgrown – barely room for one person to make it through.  After that, though, it opened up and made for a very enjoyable hike.  We met a lot of people at the falls themselves; apparently there’s another trailhead a little further west that most people take.  We liked the less travelled route, mostly because we had the trail to ourselves.

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