Black Friday - Black Couch

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day and signals the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Black Couch was found on an abandoned lot on 2nd Ave NW in Fremont.

Free Your Heart - Charlie Chaplin Stencil

Seen at Post Alley and Pike St intersection near Ghost Alley Espresso.

An Urban Hike

A sampling of the day’s mural finds.
Top Left: Red Bull Soapbox Race by Weirdocult.com.
Top Right: Happy Halloween Eastlake Abandoned Lot – Charmswon
Bottom Left: Godzilla-themed Murals Behind Cha Cha Lounge
Bottom Right: Comet Tavern Mural



We didn’t get up in the mountains this weekend. Instead, we went on a 14 mile “urban hike” in Seattle. (That’s about 30,000 steps as calculated by Fitbit.) We walked from Fremont to Capitol Hill and back.  Along the way, we had a nice lunch at Bakery Nouveau (Capitol Hill) and a wonderful Italian dinner at Cantinetta. On our hike, we saw some interesting murals, street art, and graffiti.

The Architecture of Endlessness by NKO. A mural that is part of the Capitol Hill Wall Project.





Eastlake Abandoned Lot (see Street Art in an Abandoned Lot for a view earlier this year) – Happy Halloween!


Gasworks Play Barn Graffiti


Around Stone Way and N 34th.
Top Row: Wisdom Eyes of Buddha Garage Door (N 34th @N Northlake Pl)
Bottom Row: Stone Way Café Washington-Themed Mural and Evo Southwall Mural – Pacific Northwest Spacecraft



Behind the Cha Cha Lounge, Parking Lot


Sadako Sasaki – Peace Child Statue.
The information plaque reads: “She gave us the paper crane to symbolize our yearning for peace in the world. A gift to the people of Seattle from Fratelli’s Ice Cream. Daryl Smith – Sculptor.”


Under the north end of the University Bridge. Graffiti and The Wall of Death public art installation.

Capitol Hill Murals. Left: Red Bull Soapbox Race by Weirdocult.com at Neumos.  Right: Sparkle Donkey Mural – El Burro Esparkalo  at E Pine Street and 12th Ave.

The Seattle Urban Hike Route We Followed

Couches of November

The start of a new month and we are out on the prowl for cast off furniture. To be truthful, you don’t have to try hard where we live to find it.  

Left: A couch full of shoes, but whose? Spotted at N 40th St and Aurora Ave N

Middle: Golden yellow couch sits curbside. Spotted at N 40th St and Winslow Pl N.

Right: Half a settee is better than none?  Spotted at N 36th St, near the Troll

Park Butte – Easton Glacier Hike

West side of the Easton Glacier


Our Hike Route of Park Butte Fire Lookout and Easton Glacier (via Canon GPS Logger and Google Earth)


Hike Notes

Length: 12.5 miles
Duration: 8.5 hours, 9:20 am – 5:50 pm inclusive of a 45 min lunch break.
Elevation Gain: Trailhead: WTA - 3,250 ft (WTA), Garmin** - 3,347 ft, Canon* - 3,357 ft. Highest point at edge of Easton Glacier: Garmin - 6,423 ft, Canon - 6,411 ft. Total elevation gain: Garmin - 4,150 ft, Canon - 4, 877.
Location: North Cascades -- West Slope

* Canon GPS Receiver, ** Garmin HCX

Overview

For our 10^th and possibly last hike of the 2014 season, we hiked up to the Park Butte historic fire lookout and then took a stroll alongside the west side of the Easton Glacier (WTA site). We have racked up 131.7 total miles this season, inclusive of this hike and beating our 115.2 total miles last year.

First stop for us was the Park Butte historic fire lookout. At the fire lookout we had about 45 minutes of just us two and nobody else inside. We sat staring at Mount Baker, eating lunch and reading the various journals and information sheets left inside. After our lookout lunch, we headed back to the junction of the Park Butte Trail and the Railroad Grade Trail, which takes you toward the Easton Glacier. We decided that we would just take a peak at the glacier, and head back to pick up the Scott Paul Trail back to the trailhead. However, once we got saw the glacier, we knew we wanted to walk up beside it. We followed the Railroad Grade to get to the Easton Glacier, which is a lateral moraine formed as the glacier retreated. We were walking on a ridge where, on one side there is green high meadow, and to the other, a sharp drop down into emptiness where the glacier once was. We got up to 6,500 feet, above High Camp and then called it a day and headed back.

Left: View from the Fire Lookout Toward Mt Baker; Right View from 6,500 feet near the Easton Glacier, Looking South



Fly Amanita. Left: Dirty Toadstool? Right: Toadstools and Heather


Left: A Marmot near High Camp; Right: A Gray Jay - Perisoreus canadensis

Left: Another View of Our Hike Route of Park Butte Fire Lookout and Easton Glacier (via Canon GPS Logger and Google Earth); Right: Lincoln Peak

Park Butte Fire Lookout. Left: Outside; Right: Looking Inside

Left: A Lunch Table in the Park Butte Fire Lookout; Right: View from the Fire Lookout


Hiking on the East Glacier Lateral Moraine

Vaccinia - Blueberries in Morovitz Meadow

Left: West side of the Easton Glacier; Right: Park Butte trail wall made of log ends.