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| My favorite hikes are not listed. Is there an 11th hike? |
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| NONE of these are worthy of the Top 10! |
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Redwic
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 Thu May 08, 2014 11:45 am |
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60 pounds lighter but not 60 points brighter.
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Thu May 08, 2014 2:31 pm |
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I guess if one tired of the Mountie bashing in the badge thread, one could read the WTA bashing comments in the Times article above. 
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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cairn builder
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Whoever voted that none of them are worthy needs to be slapped upside the head. They're not all the best of the best but a few of these are spectacular.
3 for me, I assume I should exclude ones I've only done part of.
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Hiker Mama
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Ummm... I've done part of one? So many hikes, so little time....
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Matt Lemke
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Sat May 10, 2014 3:17 am |
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A few of those are good approaches 
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ree
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Sat May 10, 2014 9:11 am |
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The Lakeshore Trail? Really? I think that's a boring hike.
Cascade Pass is a good choice.
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Kim Brown
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Well, I think what Ms. Daubert intends is to provide a variety of choices in several parts of the state for people of different abilities. Chelan Lakeshore is good early season, and great for kids. Its unique in the boat ride, the side-trips, wide variety of vegetation including desert and alpine as well as forest recovering from fire.
Karen gets out a lot. She's a climber, and several on this site have climbed with her and know her abilities and prowess. The last few years she has catching up on "regular-joe" hikes (my term, not hers), much of her time having been spent on routes to climbs.
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
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"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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Tom
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Sat May 10, 2014 2:04 pm |
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Except the article is titled "Top 10 hikes around Washington". Kind of funny to see Little Bandera mentioned in the top 10. Probably wouldn't even make my top 10 for the I-90 corridor.
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Redwic
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| Eric Willhite wrote: | Taking "about 50 hikes every year, including summiting about 30 peaks" does not qualify someone to make a Top 10 List in Washington.  |
lol... I thought the same thing! Some of the listed hikes are decent, while some others left me scratching head thinking, "Really?!"
| Kim Brown wrote: | | Well, I think what Ms. Daubert intends is to provide a variety of choices in several parts of the state for people of different abilities. |
That is a good point. Some of the choices seem odd to some of us... but you do not want a "Top 10" list for Washington to be too Puget-centric. There are A LOT of great places to visit in Washington.
60 pounds lighter but not 60 points brighter.
60 pounds lighter but not 60 points brighter.
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Sat May 10, 2014 9:46 pm |
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Come on guys.... it was a fluff piece in the Seattle Times, not a "best hikes" list in "Backpacker" magazine. Target audience is completely different and is "Puget centric", and if it included stuff like this one people would think some reporter at the Times had run off the rails. Stop bashin' Daubert already. Take it for what it is: a "best of" list for the unwashed cotton-wearing masses.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Sat May 10, 2014 10:31 pm |
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I've been doing it twice that long and I still don't have a clue.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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