This year's version of our Chuckanut Tour was a north-to-south traverse totaling about 15-18miles one way.
We left a car at the Oyster Dome TH on Chuckanut Drive, then continued on to the North Chuckanut TH where we started hiking.
Where it got interesting was at Lost Lake, where we took a minor mountain bike trail along the east side of the lake. This was a cool trail that went along a short ridge that hems in Lost Lake. It's broken only by a sandstone notch where the lake's outlet pours out. An easy jumpover. From there it was old logging roads and current logging roads/clearcuts as we worked our way over to the British Army trail. Gaia was essential to get through here; as we also used various mountain bike and motocross trails as well. The British Army trail is a grunt of a climb by this time of the day, with 10 miles on our odometers. But finally we reached Lizard Lake and had a chilly lunch stop. After that, there are a lot more people as we took the Lizard / Lilly Connector. No side-trip up to North Butte....it was totally socked in. Luckily by the time we arrived at Oyster Dome the clouds had parted for wonderful views.
The stretch from Oyster Dome down to Hwy 11 was tedious but well-kept.
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