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Newsletter of the Lssaquah Alps Trails Club 10 Newsletter of the lssaquah Alps Trails Club ALP..INER October• November• December 2003 Trail Fees Squak Mountain Guide by Margaret Macleod and Doug Simpson It's time for a Squak Mountain hiking guide. If you are getting frustrated by increasing numbers IATC board members Doug Simpson and David of trailsites assessing fees, you might be interested Langrock are undertaking the project to in purchasing one or more annual passes. accompany existing guide-books for Tiger and Washington State Parks, the US Forest Service Cougar mountains. and, of course, National Parks are increasingly relying upon user fees to maintain their site "Squak has so many great trails, but unfortunately facilities and trails. Passes can be purchased online too few hikers in the area really know about them," as well as at park headquarters. said Simpson. "We want to let hikers know what 10 they've been missing. It's sad to hike for three or The State Parks Vehicle Parking Pass (such as for four hours on Squak and never see a soul, while Squak Mountain's south end trailhead and 011alie on some Tiger trails you can hardly get away from State Park at exit 38 off 1-90) costs $5 per day or the crowds." $50 for an annual pass. Unless you want to go to Olympia or the regional office in Auburn, you can To give the book a little different focus, Simpson purchase a pass online (www.parks.wa.gov). and Langrock would like to utilize other hikers' impressions, experiences and adventures. What For Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest sites, are your favorite trails? Your favorite places? passes and permits cost $5 per day or $30 for an Favorite memories? Please send these to Doug annual pass. Go online (www.fs.fed.us/r6/mbs/) Simpson, 775 Mt. Fury Circle S.W., Issaquah, WA and follow these links: "Nature of the Northwest," 98027 or email him at [email protected]. "Public Lands Information Center," and "Washington Trails Association." These can also be purchased from REI or four Trail Maintenance Work Party North Bend gas stations—Edgewick Texaco, Mt. Si Chevron, Mt. Si Texaco and North Bend We're holding a trail maintenance work Texaco. During business hours, you can also get party on November 2nd and Decem- them from the Mt. Baker Ranger Station and Mt. ber 7th at Licorice Fern or Bear Ridge Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest supervisor's Trail. All volunteers are welcome. office. Contact Scott Semans at 425-369- continued on page 3 1725. The Apparatus Club Founder I Harvey Manning Whenever possible, please President use e-mail to contact any Steven Drew- 392-4432 [email protected] member listed below. Vice President, Advocacy Ken Konigsmark . 222-4839 . [email protected] Treasurer Frank Gilliland . 603-0454 [email protected] Secretary Beth Moursund . 644-4137 . [email protected] The Alpiner is published in Board of Directors January, April, July, and October. Steven Drew- 392-4432 . [email protected] Frank Gilliland- 603-0454 . [email protected] Issaquah Alps Trails Club Kitty Gross 641-4393 . [email protected] P0 Box 351, Issaquah, WA 9027 Harry Morgan 432-3249 . [email protected] Website: www.issaquahalps.org Ken Konigsmark 9575094 . [email protected] David Langrock . 313-1971 . [email protected] IATC subsists on member donations Doug Simpson 392-6660 [email protected] only. Please send your tax-deductible Scott Semans 369-1725 . [email protected] contributions to the address above to Fred Zeitler- 882-3435 . [email protected] help sustain our efforts to preserve, Hikes Coordinator protect, and promote the Issaquah Fred Zeitler- 882-3435 . [email protected] Alps and local environment. Women Walks Hikes Coordinator Kitty Gross 641-4393 . [email protected] Articles are welcome, preferably Membership Records via e-mail to: Frank Gilliland 603-0454 . [email protected] [email protected] Book Sales/Distribution Send diskette or hard copy to post Scott Semans . 369-1725 . [email protected] office box number above. Webmaster David Langrock3l3-1971 [email protected] Issue deadlines: November 21 for The Alpiner January; February 21 for April; May 21 Nancy Wagner 415-6427 . [email protected] for July; August 21 for October. Advocates Cougar Mountain: Charles McCrone 392-3466 . [email protected] Issaquah/Squak Mountain: Steven Drew 392-4432 [email protected] Tiger Mountain: Larry Hanson . 392-2458 . [email protected] Grand Ridge: Melinda Livingstone 392-7455 . [email protected] Raging River/Preston: Maryanne Tagney Jones -222-7615 [email protected] Rattlesnake Mountain/Taylor Mountain: Ralph Owen . 746-1070 Chief Ranger/Trail Maintenance Crew Chief Bill Longwell 222-6775 . [email protected] -- NolunteerTrall Maintenance-Coordinator - - - -- -- - -- - -- - - Charles McCrone . 392-3466 . [email protected] Mountains To Sound Greenway Note: All telephone Ted Thomsen - 454-8643 numbers are area code 425 unless otherwise noted. continued from page 1 For nationalparks, the Golden EaglePass ($65 Always Look on the Bright Side per year) can be used at most day-use federally- of.. development? managed lands and recreation sites operated by by Charles McCrone.• the US Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management Lest the Trails Club be characterized as nothing (BLM) and US Fish and Wildlife Service lands. more than naysayers, foretellers of doom or general poor sports, I thought I'd write a short If you want to work off the fee, you can earn a article looking at what could be called a fringe Northwest Forest Pass by doing two days of benefit of development. Cougar Mountain is the volunteer work on US Forest Service trails with Alp that has seen the most mass development the Washington Trails Association (www.wta.org). crowd its boundaries and the Trails Club has been WTA also sells the NF pass through their online intimately involved in both the debates over and store. the planning for many of these projects - most notably Meadowview (on the west) and Talus (on Clarification of Alpiner Distribution the east). During the planning stages, I focused Procedures almost exclusively on the process itself (quite exhausting at times) and the goal of preserving as many trails and open spaces as possible. It is only Since we have converted from annual dues to vol- now, when the environmental impact statements untary donations, we have had several inquiries and development agreements are a done deal, and regarding the quarterly newsletter. What I get construction has begun, that I've had attention to asked most frequently is "when will I get an spare for what the development will mean for me Alpiner after I make a donation?" as a hiker. As you all know, donations are a vital factor in The fringe benefit I mentioned above is new closer keeping IATC functioning. They are also tax de- access to old trails and trail features. For example, ductible. Getting added to the mailing list for our the Ballpark Meadow on Cougar just got a bit quarterly newsletter is easy. All we require is that closer, due to the easy and immediate access from you fill in and mail us a memberhsip request form the Meadowview road system (off the Golf Club along with your donation to P.O. Box 351, at Newcastle entry road) to the old Swingside Trail Issaquah, WA 98027. The form can be printed from - a trail which for awhile had been off the map our website or cut from an existing Alpiner or due to construction clearing. The thing that has membership flyer. Beginning with the next issue, opened my eyes to the value of this kind of access an Alpiner will be mailed to you just prior to the is hiking on four- year old speed. When your kid start of each quarter. To keep our costs to a mini- can only go a mile and a half, new access points mum, no interim copies will be sent out but our are exciting. If it were not for him, I might well hike schedule can be found at still decry the very same consequence of www.IssaquahAlps.org. Also, please remember development i now find myself extolling. to send all publication order forms (for book & maps) with the specified payment to P.O. Box 466 There are some other changes like this on Cougar: or your order will be delayed. Talus is going to change forever the character of the Precipice Trail system on the NE flanks of We appreciate the continued support of our mem- Cougar. The Telephone Trail - the gateway to bers and thank you for following these labor-sav- ing procedures. continued on page 4 continued from pag 3 the Military Road, Precipice Bottom and Big Tree park and the Precipice trail system - is restored, Ridge areas - is now a stone's throw from houses. albeit not yet in its final planned form. (Not that the prior access, walking up Westside Reservoir Road a little ways from SR 900 was so Just east of the Cougar Mt. Park boundary the terribly hard either.) Will this bring increased Shangri La and Surprise Creek trails join. In what use and visibility to the whole area, an area the has already began to feel, strangely, as the "old Trails Club wishes to see preserved? Will this days," one could either follow the bitter end of mean increased concern for its preservation, or the Shangri La road out to a sparsely populated overuse? In addition, Talus is offering new trail neighborhood with an old grassy meadow, or just connections to Bear Ridge (near the Erratic), and before that head left to connect to a Y- shaped series the Shangri La and Surprise Creek Trails much of trails that offered connections to either the higher up - and surrounding them with a whole reservoir road or the Precipice Trail at the so-called new population.
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