City Hall Protest hikes

At 8 a.m., the bodies were already piling up inside the entrance to Seattle City Hall. The homeless and their supporters lay splayed along the floor in a silent protest of police sweeps to close homeless communities. I attended to shoot photos for Homeless in Seattle, and this led me to hike to city hall twice yesterday and again this morning. Then, in the afternoon, I hiked to the library in a futile attempt to obtain support from a staff representative to encourage distribution of information about the Homeless Web site.

At 8 a.m. cars were still streaming into the downtown, but the volume had already lightened up.

A topo map indicates that the condo is at 325 feet elevation above sea level. Kaiser Permanente is about 375 feet. And the Seattle Public Library, slightly higher than city hall, is situated at about 175 feet. The distance from the condo to City Hall is 1.1 miles and to the library, 0.9 miles; to Kaiser Permanente, 0.5 miles.

So, using simple math, here's my performance for the past two days:
1.1 (2)(2)(2) [city hall] +0.9 (2) [Library] + 0.5 (2) [Kaiser Permanente]
= 9.4 miles = 15.04 km.
(325' - 175') (8) = 1200'

Official statistics for year to date:
Distance: 361.62 km
Elevation Gain: 30,375 feet