How can you tell a trail is truly beloved? Maybe because the folks that hike it can’t talk about it without profanity. To keep it PG, we’ll say its unofficial name is “Effing Cable Line.”
That’s because it’s just 1.5 miles one way, but 2,000 feet of elevation gain on Issaquah’s Tiger Mountain. Notoriously muddy. A thick metal power cable digs into the vertical route, breaching in and out of the dirt on its way to the communication towers on Tiger’s summit. On a mountain with miles of more mellow hiking and biking trails, why is Cable Line strangely beloved? It turns out the suffering
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