She who hikes and climbs

A couple of weeks ago on a very beautiful Sabbath afternoon we went hiking at the Nakashima Barn. We left church early so we could get out and enjoy the amazing weather, it had been very rainy for a while; and when you live in Washington you get out as soon as the sun comes out. The parking lot is very large and there is an outhouse, but no water. In the picture below the path to the barn is paved. The only thing that I don't like is that the barn is all boarded up so you are not able to go into it. There are however giant pictures on the barn with information on the pictures. The Centennial Trail  is paved the whole way and is very easy, it also only has 682 feet elevation gain on the whole entire 30 some odd miles. This path leads from the parking lot to the main trail. There are fry in the stream, I don't know if you can see them in the pictures above and below. This is the main trail, we went to the right and walked on the old railroad grade, ...

This last weekend we were supposed to go camping with my in-laws. However that did not happen because my husband had to work, and my in-law's vehicle had brake problems. I was rather sad not to go, but then I texted L and asked if she wanted to go hiking on Sabbath. She said yes, and we deiced that we were going do the Lime Kiln Trail . (FYI Washington Trails website says that the trail is 7.0 miles, according to our GPS we did 6.7 miles and the Alltrails website states that Lime Kiln is 6.7 miles.) We were finally going to do one of the 102 trails on hiking list! We left at Church and used my phone app Waze which lead us clear to the other side of Granite Falls and into some random neighborhood. So we stopped and asked a lady and she didn't give very good directions, so we finally headed back into town to get cell phone service and googled mapped the directions. Definitely get directions before you head out. The parking lot is pretty large, however there is no bath...