CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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The outer loop of Five Mile Drive at Point Defiance will remain closed on Sunday mornings, Metro Parks officials announced Friday afternoon.
The announcement comes at the end of a two-month pilot program that kept the drive closed to vehicles before 1 p.m. on Sunday. The road has long been closed to motor traffic before 1 p.m. on Saturdays.
The closures are designed to give walkers, joggers, cyclists, skaters and other users a time to have the road to themselves.
"More than 80 percent of park users have responded favorably to a survey being conducted in conjunction with this summer’s pilot program," according to a statement released Friday by the parks department.
The parks will continue to collect responses on its online survey until Sept. 15.
Click here to take the survey.
(The above photo was taken by News Tribune photographer Peter Haley.)
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources just announced that the Northwest Timber Trail, one of two trails closed on Tiger Mountain near North Bend, has re-opened.
After completion of a bridge replacement on Aug. 30, the Northwest Timber Trail/Connector Trail is now open for use. Funding for this project was made possible by the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office, Washington State Emergency Storm Relief and FEMA, a department news release said.
The South Tiger Traverse Trail is still closed and will reopen Nov. 1, after the Peacock Timber sale. The closure affects equestrian users and hikers. The Tiger Mountain Trail remains open during the harvest operations.
For information and assistance during this closure, call Sam Jarrett, 206-375-0448; or send an e-mail to sam.jarrett@dnr.wa.gov.
We took advantage of the Labor Day weekend to go camping with friends at Pacific Beach. We had great weather, good times playing on the beach with our kids and had the last s'mores of the summer. It was a good way to wrap a fun and busy summer.
Flames leap from the fire to toast a coconut-crusted marshmallow soon to be turned into a s'more.
