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Old 11-09-2014, 11:11 AM
 
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What are some recommend best hikes (moderate,mild,easy - not strenuous/difficult) in Snohomish county area?
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Old 11-09-2014, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Independent Republic of Ballard
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Well, that leaves out Lake Serene (Mt. Index)...
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Old 11-09-2014, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Alamogordo, NM
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I would Google Big Four Mountain and it's Ice Caves hike. Take the Mt.Loop Road there and park where there used to sit a beautiful Lodge. They had a train take people up from Everett to vacation there. They had a 9-hole golf course right behind the Lodge, too. Beautiful destination for a hike. The flat walk to the Big Four Ice Caves is a very easy 1/4-mile hike. When you get there you'll have fun sliding down the top of the ice caves on your jacket. Look up and you'll have majestic Big Four Mountain looking down at you all gorgeous and everything. It's beautiful I'm telling you!

Also, take a look at a hike on the side of Mt.Pilchuck called the Lake 22 hike. Lake 22 would be your destination and this one is really more of a serious hiker's hike but very doable for novice hikers. Just bring water and beef up on some nutritious food and bring a smartphone with a good camera because you will find a beautiful destination to snap several pictures of. Enjoy!
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Old 11-09-2014, 11:53 AM
 
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Wallace Falls is nice. Not too strenuous.
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Old 11-09-2014, 11:56 AM
 
Location: Alamogordo, NM
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Indeed, Wallace Falls is an easy hike and it's beautiful.
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Old 11-09-2014, 04:41 PM
 
Location: West Coast - Best Coast!
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Indeed, Wallace Falls is an easy hike and it's beautiful.
Though Wallace Falls might be easy for some, I know many that would call it moderate. It's fairly steep.
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Old 11-09-2014, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Back at home in western Washington!
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When you get there you'll have fun sliding down the top of the ice caves on your jacket.
As a former Snohomish Co. Search and Rescue personnel...please, please, please...heed the signs and STAY OFF the ice caves. You can't imagine the number of people hauled down that trail on litters because of accidents climbing on the ice caves.
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Old 11-11-2014, 11:27 AM
 
Location: Bothell, Washington
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I would recommend the Boulder River trail between Oso and Darrington, on French Creek road just off of highway 530. It is a gorgeous hike, not too strenuous at all- I even carried our 19 month old for about half of the trip, and he walked the other half.

It is a several mile trail but the main hike it seems most people do ends at the 1.3 mile mark. At that point the trail gets to a low spot just above Boulder River where a 150 foot waterfall cascades down a sheer cliff into the river right in front of you. There is a very short path that you can take down from the trail to the rocky shore of the river directly across from the waterfall.

I have hiked quite a few trails around the area in the 5 years I have lived here and I think this is my all time favorite- very scenic all along the way with a huge payoff at the end, and not too strenuous at all.
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Old 11-11-2014, 05:20 PM
 
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I answered on OP's other thread (in WA forum). My suggestions were Wallace Falls and Pilchuck Ice Caves. Then I saw this thread.
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Old 11-12-2014, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Humble, TX
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One of my former go-to places for trail running, or hiking with my kids, used to be Lord Hill Regional Park, Snohomish County, WA - Official Website. Not a place for stunning vistas, waterfalls, or old growth forest, but a very nice, easily accessible place to go for day hiking. Nice trails/dirt roads throughout, with some hilliness and undulating terrain to it, but nothing I would call strenuous. The highest point in the park is only about 650 feet, but is a wonderful lunch spot you get to off of the Pipeline Cutoff Trail. Very commanding view of the surrounding Puget Sound region. Very quiet, lots of beaver ponds, and just a nice place to get away to. Be watchful for equestrian folks as many go to ride out there. Very nice people in general, and they do a lot to help maintain the park. I always stopped when approaching from the opposite direction so as to not spook the horses, or to just chat. It is one of the places I miss most, now living in Texas, with not a hill in sight in the Houston area. The road getting to the park is quite steep, so be wary during any potential times where there may be ice on the roads. Good places in either Snohomish or Monroe to stop for lunch/dinner after a day out there.
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