Swamp Monster Trail

We headed out this morning with a great idea to go to Swamp Monster Trail on Tiger Mountain near Issaquah. It was a beautiful morning with sunshine and a mild temperature. We started down the trail to find the "swamp monster" but when we came to a fork in the road, we took the road more traveled and ended up on the wrong trail. We ended up meeting up with the trail again, but we had missed the "swamp".

We took some great pictures and had a fantastic time, even Olivia is asking when we can go back to Swamp Monster trail.The leaves were huge on these plants. We felt like we were in a far-off rain forest.

We came across one of the granddaddy's of the forest on Tiger Mountain...this tree was 25 feet in diameter.

Near the end of our 3 mile hike, we came across a bus that had been stranded in the forest. There were huge trees all around it and it made us all wonder how it got there. Later, we learned that there used to be a logging road through there and that it was abandoned in the early part of last century. It was still quite a site to see.