Dirty Harry's Balcony

Well, our hike up Dirty Harry didn't turn out the way we would have liked.  We missed the trail head, which isn't surprising.  It wasn't marked and was very over grown. So we walked at least an extra mile or more.  It was dubbed an old logging road, but really was an old river bed that dried up.  Terah brought her old black lab, Madison, who became lame about a mile up and we turned around.  We plan on going another day--that will hopefully be sunny.  We had a new hiking companion--Leona--the more the merrier!  We ended up having a great day any way--we got to see the fire training facility as well as finding a new bike path for Chip and I.  It's called the Iron Horse Trail.  Washington has a program called rails to trails--meaning it's an old rail road tracks into walking/bike paths.   This one has tunnels (we will need head lamps as 1 tunnel is 2 miles long!) and bridges that we will have to bike over.  I hope Chip can handle that! We plan on going next year as there is quite an elevation gain and it might be too much for Chip's knee this year. 

Leona and Terah with Madison and Pito

we had to walk across this 'bridge'

on the way back we stopped at the river for a walk and swim for the dogs

One tired pooch

So cool they were practicing!