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; The Mountaineer 
LOCAL WALKS 
Wrvnona Battery 
No small part of the activity of the Mountaineers’ club is 
spent on local walks. In Seattle during the year beginning | 
December, 1911, thirty-six walks were successfully conducted 
by the committee in charge, twenty-three on Sunday and thir- 
teen on Saturday. The average Sunday walk took all day for 
a distance of about ten miles. Some of the Saturday walks 
were for the afternoon only, occasionally arranged to close with 
a big dinner at some country inn, where quality of food and 
good company attracted many, whose work prevented partici- 
pation in the walk earher in the day. 
The spring walks closed in June with a big reunion, clam- 
bake, and camp-fire on Blake Island, the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Wilham Pitt Trimble. 
The numerous street car lines running out of Seattle and 
its matchless water ways, including Lake and Sound, give op- 
portunity for endless variety in the selection of route and ob- 
jective point. About once a month a chartered steamer has 
earried from one hundred to two hundred people across the 
Sound to some otherwise inaccessible spot, and waited to bring 
them back in the evening. Sometimes the regular boat has 
been used, occasionally the railroad. Trips across or around 
Lake Washington alternate with Sound and Interurban trips. 
The region covered extends from Tulalip reservation near 
Everett on the north to the prairies south of Tacoma, from 
Bothell to Renton in the lake district and west into Kitsap 
county and across to Hood’s Canal. The vast territory acces- 
sible and the constantly increasing number of roads and trails 
make it seldom necessary to repeat a walk entirely. 
There have been six joint walks with the Everett mem- 
bers, often planned so that the parties met midway on the 
Interurban; and in May when the violets were in bloom every- 
one joined gladly with Tacoma walkers. 
The extra strenuous have had two opportunities to test 
muscle and endurance, one for twenty-two miles to Renton by 
