Exhausted on Little Si

A staircase on the Little Si trail, and the verdant nature of today's hike

I was really tired on today's hike. I swam one kilometer last night and then got too little sleep, and that probably explains the exhaustion. It took me two hours to summit and 90 minutes to get back to the car. Not sure what that means, to be so tired, particularly because I didn't do all the hikes I wanted to this week.

Bright red rotting stump

Statistics for the day:
Distance: 5 miles 
Conditions: Cool, overcast at times
Load: 33 pounds for the Tiger Mountain portion: backpack and 20# weight vest.
Elevation gain: 1,300 feet

Statistics, year to date:
Distance: 85.1 miles
Elevation Gain: 25,090 feet, 3,732 feet until my second Rainier.

Sworls in the trunk-wood base on a tree.

Large moss-covered boulders at the base of a cliff

Moss-covered tree beside a path