Walked the Soaring Eagle trails and a side out and back through the Steven & Rosina Kipper Preserve trail over to Beaver Lake and back Saturday morning. Total mileage for the exterior loop and walk over to Beaver Lake was about 7 miles. Parking at Soaring Eagle is paved and free with spillover street parking along E Main Dr. There is additional access at the north end of Trossaches Blvd NE and at the Beaver Lake Preserve lot off W Beaver Lake Dr SE. There are single functional sanicans at the main Soaring Eagle lot and at the Beaver Lake Preserve lot. There is some significant mud on the north and east sections of Soaring Eagle though nothing that would completely obstruct passage. There is some mt bike traffic but they were all very polite. Many of the local dogs had their hoomans off leash today if that is an issue for you.
Soaring Eagle didn’t have any eagles but there were a pair of big raven flying high over the forest canopy, >grok, grok, grok<.. Much of the forest is open maple/alder other than the south east corner which is more conifer. The Beaver Lake trails have more native cedar. There is a single remaining native dogwood in the southern half of Soaring Eagle which is pretty cool, (most died of disease in the 70’s/80’s.) Most of the views over Beaver Lake are of billion dollar houses on the other side, but there are a few more natural areas. A nice, quiet walk in the woods.
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