Sunny day at Tiger Mountain

Good evening to all.

Today was one of those days that was a really nice day for hiking(winter hiking that is) up at Tiger Mountain in Issaquah. And with the recent snow we had this past weekend, there was still plenty of snow up on the moutain. In fact, there was snow down at the base of the trails as well. The trails were pretty snow covered(more so) as you got about half way up, but was compact snow/ice from the daytime melting. So was able to use my YakTracks, which are basically kinda like snow shoes that fit under your boots so as to have better traction.

As for hiking time on the trail which I think is about 4 miles up the TMT(Tiger Mountain Trail) which is steep and or has more of an incline in some places along the way, it took me about 1hr 25min going up and about 45min going back down. So over all and as you can see from the pics I took, it was a pretty clear and sunny day with a snowman to greet the hikers.