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Jeff in SEA
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🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 🏞️☸️ - Issaquah, WA "Two and two make four", Marcel Camus (mostly pics for my friends, #hiking the #pnw)
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Sunrise over Grand Coulee.

Back to eastern WA for the weekend.

#pnw #wastate #roadtrip #grandcouleedam
But I saw my first snow of this end of year. I just wasn't prepared for it.
Had a bad day. One of those when you're soaking wet only 15 mins in, you're cold, you're angry, then you slip 7 times on the way back and curse out loud in French where nobody can hear you scream.

Cold Creek Trail, it's in the name.

#hiking #pnw #traillife #hikingtrails #mtbakernationalforest
Oui!

J'ai hésité avec Contingency's Child.
Subtly downgrade a band :

Destiny's Relative
Subtly downgrade a band :

Mickey 2D
Subtly downgrade a band :

KO
Thursday nights. I drive downtown, on Front Street, past the kind of places that close early. At the dive bar the jukebox hums low, the pool table waits. I drink beer. I sit still. I absorb the room, the quiet choreography of strangers. It feels good disappearing into something else.

#issaquah
Woohoo! France! Where do you plan to go next?
Snow Lake has water that is just crystal clear, and deep blue, almost bronze.

#pnw #wastate #hikingtrails #mtbakernationalforest
Snow Lake Trail is rocky and a little steep, but the view on the lake is very rewarding. A cloud was partially landing on the lake, which added a gorgeous dynamic to the views.

#pnw #wastate #hikingtrails #mtbakernationalforest
When the world feels too dark to bear - it did this week - I listen to The Body Electric (Fame, 1980).

Not for nostalgia - those years were no kinder - but for the hope it held. The young faces on screen believed in something. And for a moment, I do too.

#sigh
I just wanted to go to Snow Lake near Snoqualmie Pass, but the index was over 50/60 there on Sunday.
So excited to hear this coming episode, because I trust it'll be rooted in solid research and thoughtful analysis. Always appreciate the rigor behind the storytelling!
Not great air quality index to the east forced me to stay near Issaquah for my Sunday trail. Went to West Tiger for my usual 1, 2, 3 routine.

It was so wet, and foggy, and I got into so many spider webs along the way. Felt like the rain forest a bit.

#pnw #wastate #hikingtrails #issaquahalps
Also had fun recording a hyperlapse during my break on the summit.

Looks like a river flowing.

#pnw #wastate #hikingtrails #issaquahalps #northbendwa #mountsi
Did a panoramic video. It's always frustrating how much cameras fail to capture the openness of a landscape.

#pnw #wastate #hikingtrails #issaquahalps #northbendwa #mountsi
Back to trail day.

I went up Mount Si, thinking it could be a cloudy hike. But half up way there the sun showed up, and had a gorgeous view over a sea of white clouds covering the land as far as eye could see.

#pnw #wastate #hikingtrails #issaquahalps #northbendwa #mountsi
On the other side of that string.
Whidbey Island, Fort Casey is a windy spot. Perfect for keeping it cool.
Ah ! Well, I still think it's pretty rare 😅

(I particularly look at them in posts/tweets from political figures, and I think no way those folks use this combo)
Hint on how to detect use of AI in writing a post.

If there's an "em dash", you can be pretty sure AI in involved.

Cause... Who knows how to find an em dash on a keyboard? Also, auto correct doesn't add them on its own.
🎶 Il ne peut plus rien nous arriver d'affreux maintenant 🎶
Il faut vraiment que je réécrive cette bouse.

#DemainJeMYMets