Hiking to Costo

New construction near King Street Station, downtown Seattle, Nov 16, 2016

It's been six weeks since I did a real hike of any sort, and that was in the Colorado Rockies. Today I simply walked to Costco with perhaps a 5-pound load in a small backpack, to check out an outdoor down vest to buffer me against the winter cold of Germany, where I will be flying Dec. 13. Yesterday I hiked to REI to check out these vests, after seeing one at Costco for under $50. (Distance: 2.4 miles). The REI vest was more expensive so I wanted to check out the Costco vest again. Enroute I passed Outdoor Emportium, which had an inexpensive fly fishing vest which I purchased for photography and travel. I also looked at their outdoor vests and their rain pants and I may return for the rain pants. I ended up purchasing the Costco vest, even though I couldn't fold it into one of it's pockets, which was possible with the REI vest.

The route to Costco was 7.8 miles round trip. To REI the day earlier, was 2.4 miles. Google gives the altitude change to Costco as 322 feet, but it was so spread out I'm not tallying elevation gain.

So: today's statistics:

To Costco: 12.48 km
To REI:        3,84 km
Weight: negligible
Elevation gain: Negligible

Total stats:

Accumulated distance for 2016: 438.987 km
Accumulated elevation gain: 59,856 feet