Thursday my husband and I went hiking with the Bellingham Senior Trailblazers. We drove to Baker lake and the trailhead for the Noisy Creek hike. The guidebooks say it's a 9 mile hike, but my iPhone's Endomondo app put it at 10.09 miles & Pat (our fearless leader)
said his GPS tracked us and 10.1 miles. So a bit of discrepancy with the book,
but I like that our own tracking devices pretty much matched.
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| Mosquito spray stop |
In about 2 miles we came to Hidden Creek, beautiful and noisy
but not the Noisy Creek we were looking for ;-)
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| this picture is from a previous hiking trip (Sulphide creek & Baker river hike May 2011) |
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| one of the wood bridges on the trail |
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| opening before the site of the campground |
after about 2 1/2 hours of hiking we took a right turn at the fork in the trail and walked
to the campground for lunch.
to the campground for lunch.
It was a great spot to eat, even a picnic table!
We had a view of the Noisy Creek bridge across the lake.
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| click to enlarge to get a better look at the bridge |
and finally Noisy Creek -
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| after lunch we walked a bit farther on the trail so we could say we had actually seen Noisy Creek! |
On the Senior Trailblazer's schedule this hike was to be eight miles long. This turned out to be a "little" farther. That's the farthest I've hiked for awhile and even though it was moderate in it's rating - I'm wondering if I'll be rested enough to hike Sauk mtn. with the group next Thursday.
We'll see......
Nice day for a hike and nice company.
Endomondo stats:
10.09 total miles hiked
