[like2thruhike]

'Just wondering besides church,friends,the local co-op,and NWH where are singles meeting these days,online?

[veronika]

Good question... I am wondering the same. I do have to say you meet alot of people online but it has MAJOR disadvantages. The grocery store theory does not work.

[jennmonkey]

I did some online dating awhile back and had decent luck with okcupid. It's free, and I met my last boyfriend on there. I've known people to do match.com, but I never tried it.

[veronika]

I have two friends that were married from Match.com but I will not pay for an online dating site. I personally had no luck a few years back with ok cupid. Plenty of fish is free and have had luck with finding friends but nothing more. A few have been close friends for about three years now. I can't do the online thing anymore. Too many idjuts these days as opposed to a few years prior.

[The Angry Hiker]

There are a lot of friendly and willing women to be found in North Bend. Often, as I'm cruising down the main drag on my way to Mount Si, all kinds of gals will show some skin and wave their Northwest Forest Pass as I drive by. If I stop, they'll sometimes sashay up to my window and purr, "Looking for a hiking partner?" "Sure. How much?" I'll ask. "50 bucks. An extra 50 if you want to scramble. And no kinky stuff. If I see any ropes, clips, or carabiners, I'm outta there." But be careful. The last hiking partner I picked up turned out to be an undercover vice ranger for the parks service.

[veronika]

[Dayhike Mike]

[Hulksmash]

The problem with on line dating. Personality tests: Sure they may be scientifically based. But that science useless when the test taker fakes the data, by not being brutally honest when answering the scientifically based questions. In short LIAR! Free form add: This takes a some creativity to stand out from the thousands of other personal adds. So the most interesting person is a contrived fairy tail created from the mind of an obsessive compulsive pathological LIAR! The cream of the crop of LIARS can be found at these sites. The honest ones: Yep, there are some honest people to be found on dating sites. The problem is that these people are likely to be so obtuse that no one else can stand being around them. This is why they are single in the first place.

[veronika]

You have to weed through the BS profiles and honestly, been there, done that... too much work IMO. That's why I say there are ALOT of disadvantages to online dating, the pathological liars. And the omittance of key personality traits. I have come to the conclusion that I am single because of my lifestyle rather than choice. That is my story and I am sticking to it!

[Canuck]

I met my husband in a dive bar in Ballard. We were both drunk. That was almost 17 years ago. So spend some time in the Sloop Tavern, you might get lucky. I have a good friend who met/married from match.com. But he said the same thing - he met a lot of weirdo women who were big fat liars and it was hard to wade through all the crappy ones.

[Yana]

Not looking worked for me, but that might be because of my irresistible charm and utter perfection.

[The Angry Hiker]

You might also try your local library. I heard that if you throw a dead cat at the Seattle Downtown Library, chances are you'll hit a woman who either gets turned on by that sort of thing, or is desperate enough to not care. But it has to be a dead cat. I tried it with a live raccoon once and almost got arrested.

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[Daryl]

Met my wife on an internet dating site, but that was like 15 years ago and I'm sure it's a little different now, but that has worked out very well. As a married guy not looking my advice probably isn't worth all that much, but darn, I see a lot of women hiking alone or with other women out there. I've told my single non hiker friends to go hiking and bring a cute or very ugly dog. Note: I mostly hike Mt loop hwy area as it's close to my house.

[Mrs. Baker]

Yeah, agreed. I first met my beautiful husband on a snowshoe trip years ago. Then last summer, we met again and the timing was perfect. Timing has a lot to with the hooking up equation.