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, …
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 …
I’ve been getting my exercise this year following the walks in “Seattle Stairway Walks”. You can get your copy here.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
By taking 48, the longest bus route in Seattle, one can surprisingly bus from our house, through the University, Ravenna and Greenlake, to the start of this hike in northern …
