Middle Fork camping this weekend Anything and everything .83 Seattle

[kristen]

[ksep]

I still want to go camping. My bags are packed. I've got a new fishing lure and sleeping bag I want to try out. I won't stay up too late.

But I'm keeping a real close eye on that weather. Cloudy skies are nice. No sunburn, no death heat. Not feeling groovy about blue tarp bike camping though. This commercial is so accurate.
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Maybe these feelings I'm having are curable by a little alcohol, camp fire, and nudity?

[lantius]

[ksep]

[kristen]

[ksep]

[blasdelf]

[lantius]

[Sway]

[lantius]

[Sway]

[lantius]

rain in fall city but dry in north bend at the qfc. we're doing this bitch. beer, booze, and foods acquired.

check for us at the 2 mile campground (down the slope to the river) first, we'll leave a cairn/trail marker if we go there.

[ksep]

[ksep]

[limpyweta]

[ksep]

[lantius]

[ksep]

lee (alex, andre, etc.) you should and sell pitchers of ipa for $6.50.

[kristen]

damn, i slept beautifully in my hammock. good company, great ride. the more i think about it, the more our route experiment with I90 entertains me. thanks to both of you for being made of something stronger than sugar!

[dennyt]

I know you pointythrees love the Middle Fork. Check this out - if you get to the end of the road (Taylor creek / Middle Fork intersection), you can hike to Snoqualmie Lake, but it's 10 miles each way. Bullshit, right? Well, guess what, <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/recreation/activities/trails/snrd_1002.htm">you can ride your bike the first 6 miles</a>, pass all the chumps who are just gonna turn around anyway, and have yourself a grand old time in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.

I did this as an afternoon trip to beat the heat, but you could bring overnight gear too. The first two beaches at the lake had room for 2-4 tents each. They're spectacular. There are probably more beaches further out, and there's even a special lake for <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=snoqualmie+lake,+wa&daddr=Lake+Pugsley,+Snoqualmie+Valley,+WA+98288&geocode=FafN1QIdZ2PD-CkHaQKZ4YeaVDEE8v1BnFNbaQ%3BFd0a1gIdB5TD-CnrerYnZoiaVDHXCm62lSSGZg&hl=en&mra=ls&dirflg=b&sll=47.574009,-121.409679&sspn=0.048234,0.079308&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14&lci=bike">Lee.</a> It looks like Deer Lake and Bear Lake are just up the trail, too.

Fat street tires and full fenders did just fine. Platform pedals + walkin' shoes recommended. Bring a cable lock to secure yer bike.

Weekdays not recommended, they blastin' err'body out here.


But, you can play with their tank!


And their disk-brake-wheelbarrow!


I'm sure at least one of you will know what to do with this...


First campsite:


Second Beach, which features a big flat rock island for napping:
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[tehschkott]

Fuckin A Denny! This is good news.

[dennyt]

There's some funny math going on with the mileage. The hiking part is only 2 miles each way from the road to the lake, it took me an hour on the way up with a daypack.

What I'm sayin' is, y'all should get on this.

[the dreaded ben]

plus you pass by that awesome water slide/fall on the way up.

[blasdelf]

[henry]