Meet Anastasia Allison and Jason Bickford, Backpacker’s Seattle Trail Scouts
Get potentially the most efficient of the Pacific Northwest with fair a diminutive of support from Backpacker’s dawdle specialists.
Anastasia Allison
Follow Anastasia’s adventures on her blog and on Instagram @anastasia.allison.
Age: 36
Fatherland: Everett, WA
Day job: Creator, backpacking teacher, and adventurepreneur
All-time favourite native dayhike: Mt. Pugh or Gothic Basin
Well-liked native in a single day hike: Tapto Lakes
Greatest prehike breakfast plight: 5 B’s Bakery in Concrete, WA (the cinnamon rolls and the mini breakfast quiche are unprecedented!) or J5 Espresso in Leavenworth
Greatest posthike dinner plight: Cascadian Farms in Marblemount, WA for ice cream and espresso, Alpen Power Inn in Sultan, WA for a burger and fries, or Munchen Haus in Leavenworth for a brat.
Well-liked ingredient about mountain climbing around Seattle: The range. On any given weekend I can secure to hike the waft, climb a mountain, discuss over with an alpine lake or lope by the wasteland. It is possible you’ll well explore the wasteland areas around Seattle to your entire life and never get bored.
Prime tip for Seattle hikers: Mountain mountain climbing on the extra long-established trails in the PNW may perchance well moreover moreover be truly crowded and overwhelming. My advice? Get eager about maps. Scour them for new trails, lakes, or peaks that you have not visited before. Rate your review.
Jason Bickford
Follow Jason’s adventures at Mountain Tested, on Twitter @mtn_tested, Instagram @mountain_tested, and on Fb.
Age: 30
Fatherland: Bothell, WA
Day job: Sales Supervisor at Bickford Ford
All-time favourite native dayhike: Mailbox Peak
Well-liked native in a single day hike: Jade Lake
Greatest prehike breakfast plight: Maltby Cafe, Snohomish, WA
Greatest posthike dinner plight: Ranch Power-In, Bothell, WA
Well-liked ingredient about mountain climbing around Seattle: Summit views of the native beauty: Olympics, Cascades, Mt Rainier, Puget Sound
Prime tip for Seattle hikers: Make investments in a gradual lightweight and packable rain shell and hike in the rain.
Originally posted 2018-02-15 00:04:37.
