Highly Recommended Book Sometime in January, I went to REI to pick up a couple new hiking books. The idea being that I'd get into better shape for summer hiking trips …
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Stairway Walks
The Last Walk: #17, Solstice Park
17 Oct ’14
Fitting that the very last walk would be with Victor, who took the very first walk with me. No. 17, "Solstice Park" is the most pointless walk in the book. …
Schmitz Preserve: Stairway Walk #18
16 Oct ’14
I've long heard of the beauty of Schmitz Preserve, a narrow creek that runs up a gorge from the beach up to the bluff above filled with old growth trees, …
SIXTEEN: Fauntleroy & the Thistle Stairs!
14 Oct ’14
It's been months since I've been on a walk in the "Seattle Stairway Walks", having injured a tendon by either using too old of shoes, or buying the wrong new …
Capitol Hill Stair Walk: The Big Ones!
23 Mar ’14
I’ve been getting my exercise this year following the walks in “Seattle Stairway Walks”. You can get your copy here.
Stair Walk 15: Downtown Seattle
20 Mar ’14
Stairway Walk 15 is a winding ramble through downtown. A ramble with a purpose, but still, when you've walked these streets hundred of times, I didn't have much desire to …
Stairwalk 5: Northgate
17 Mar ’14
I'd actually been really looking forward to this walk. As one of the longest in the book, it crossed a large neighborhood that I don't know well, but that I …
This walk is the farthest north in the book I've been following, way up in the suburbs and I've never hard a reason to go there. Even going there for …
Beach Stairs in Burien: Walk 23
28 Feb ’14
My friend T recently lost his job and so has plenty of time to go on long walks with me. Unfortunately, with all the stress, he has taken up smoking …
Mercer Island: Long, Strange Stairs
24 Feb ’14
The last walk listed in the Seattle Stairway Walks book is on Mercer Island. I lived for a winter, years ago, on Mercer Island. It was the time of the …
Walking to Get Over a Dead Cat: Mt. Baker
23 Feb ’14
One unexpected delight of working through the 25 walks in the Seattle Stairway Walks book is that all of a sudden, I am out walking with many of my friends. …
Stairway Walk 12: Northwest Queen Anne
22 Feb ’14
The Seattle Stairway Walks book makes it pretty clear, this third Queen Anne walk lacks the charms and ambiance of the other two in the book. And yep, that is …