Another close-in trail, and perfect for those of us who ate too much for Thanksgiving to tackle a very long trail, is the trail system at Carkeek Park. There are miles of trails here, but you can meander through all of them (it’s not one continuous loop though), or just do a little bit for the fresh air and scenery. My youngest son came with for this trip.
Salmon spawn in Piper’s Creek which runs through the gulch there, and in fact yesterday there had been a celebration in their honor. Hopefully they showed up for their celebration, because we didn’t see any today. We also didn’t see any bald eagles, but it was still worth the trip.
We ended up walking some of the South Bluff Trail, beautiful trees although the recent storm had brought quite a few down across the trail.
From there we walked onto the beach, via a tiny bridge over the railroad track. The tide was high, but I love walking on any beach any time, so I was happy with the bit of sand, some shiny smooth rocks and various holey twisted driftwood stumps.
Leaving the beach, we meandered up past a playground up the north bank, and then back down that bank to Piper’s Creek, looking for salmon again, and back to the car, maybe 2 miles total.
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