Urban Hike - Capitol Hill to Husky Stadium - Saturday, February 12, 2022
It was a beautiful day for a hike on the second Saturday of February. Ten members (Derek Brown, Gerlinde Gruber, Kendra Wanzenried, Ida Callahan, Cam Bradley, Diane Clifford, Sylvia Shiroyama, Sam Shiroyama, Clarence Elstad, Toni Williams) of CAI-PNW met the leader, Steve Johnson, near the Capitol Hill light rail station. We grabbed a bite to eat and some coffee at Kitanda before heading north towards Volunteer Park. We passed some marvelous old mansions on the way up to the park.
A group picture was taken at the Volunteer Park "Black Sun" sculpture before we started down the other side of the hill. We passed a very busy Volunteer Park Cafe on our way to Interlake Park. A forested path led us through the canyon steeply down into the Montlake neighborhood, where we caught a path under the freeway to the Montlake Bridge. A short walk from there and we were at the University of Washington Light Rail Station. Some of us continued on the train up to our cars parked at the Northgate Station. It was a very nice walk of about 3.1 miles.
