April showers bring new Mountaineer Adventures!

Sunday I went on my second big adventure hiking with the Mountaineers. I went on three hikes totaling 8.5 miles all around Deception Pass... I had a great time!

This is the first hike... all the same group went on all the hikes (there were a total of 6 of us)

Here we're using our new compass/map reading skills to locate our position on the map.

Now using a technique called leap-froging (not as fun as the real leap-froging)

Once we got to the top of the first "hill" on the first hike, I got my picture taken on the edge :) If you notice, I actually carry my compass around my neck... which makes for an odd square under my shirt... (I ended up moving it to my pants pocket)

As you know... I'm always only one step away from taking pictures of myself...

We then headed down for our second hike... down along the west beach of Deception Pass.

After that was lunch and some quizzes on bearings, triangulations and contour lines. The third hike was on the north side on the bridge out to LightHouse Point.

Once around the side - there were amazing views. There was old growth trees and I even got to stand in one!

By the end of the hikes... I was a little pooped...

but I couldn't resist NOT driving down Whidbey Island!

Going to Whidbey means one more thing...

The Good 'Ol Washington State Ferry System!