(During my ride on the Snoqualmie Valley Trail I made a short detour at Mt. Si Road to see the original trailhead for Little Si.)

This jungle of brush used to be the beginning of the trail to the summit of Little Si. It's in a residential neighborhood on 434th Avenue Southeast in North Bend. This trailhead was replaced around 2003 with a new one that allowed the trail to by-pass the neighborhood. The by-pass was built because of problems with disrespectful hikers.

At one time the lower part of the original trail was a gravel road, probably created as a logging road. In the late 1970s I drove up it once. The trailhead was later narrowed with boulders and posts to keep vehicles out. From here the route went steeply uphill, curved left, curved right, and reached a relatively level area, where it made a long, narrow horseshoe curve. At the level area, a foot path left the road and cut across the horseshoe curve, meeting the road again. The re-routed trail connects with the "horseshoe-crossing" trail.

The only reason I was able to find this spot was by looking for two landmarks I remembered from my trips to Little Si in years past: a little house with a telephone pole full of insulators. Both are visible at far right. The pole has two cross members, a lower one that shows up well and an upper one that doesn't. The insulator collection is on the upper cross member. I remembered the insulators from several hikes to Little Si A morbid fact is that (in the 1980s) the occupant of the little house was killed (shot to death?) as he opened the front door. As far as I know, the case was never solved.

Shot with my iPhone while seated on my recumbent trike. Geotagging is approximate.