amanda and i have had a busy january! we hiked every weekend!

last saturday we went south to the enumclaw area and did 2 hikes and visited 2 breweries!

it was a cloudy and drizzly day, but only a light drizzle off and on. no rain gear was necessary. our first hike was at federation forest state park, a small section of preserved old growth forest in a heavily logged area along the white river near mt rainier. it was great to see the huge old trees! some of the trail was through a bog and was the muddiest trail we've hiked yet. saw deer tracks but no deer. the "hobbit houses" were in a remote section of forest. people have left gnomes and other trinkets. it was partly fun and partly creepy.
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our second hike was at mud mountain rim along the white river downstream from federation forest near the mud mountain dam, which is a large old flood control dam. at that point the white river has carved a deep gorge. the trail followed the rim of the gorge for a few miles. there were some nice views into the gorge culminating at a bench directly across from a stream cascading down the opposite side of the gorge.
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we visited elkhead brewing in buckley, wa. the beers were surprisingly good for a place out in the middle of nowhere. they brew about a dozen different beers and we liked almost all of them. they had a good porter with licorice root and a pepper beer that is almost too spicy to drink! we will definitely be back when we go to mt rainier in the summer.

we had burgers at shake n go. they tasted sooo good, but we were starving by then. ;) the fried mushrooms were good too.

we visited trade route brewing in pacific, wa. the beers were interesting, but kind of gross. not interested in drinking any of them again.

Labels: breweries, food, hiking, pictures

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