Regarding the Friday letter, “Chance to expand easy walking trail”: In the first place, it’s the Suiattle River Road or Forest Service Road 26. I have to wonder it the writer had ever been near this place before it was closed.
The road is only level for about 2 miles after leaving Highway 530 after the Sauk River bridge. At this level you can barely see the river. Then it climbs steadily to Buck Creek campground. After that, it climbs steeply first to Downy Creek, then Sulpher creek, 27 miles!
It is just a quarter mile to the Pacific Crest/Glacier Peak Wilderness trail head. None of this would be “a pleasant stroll” for anyone.
As a third-generation Everett resident, my family had made Sulpher Creek a traditional camping area before I was born! Now in my fifties, there is a great desire to revisit a place that holds so many memories, including the scattering of my brother’s ashes in 2000 at his behest.
The writer also cites that people who can hike the “rugged trails” could easily do so ignores those of us who cannot.
Please remember that we are not all Paul Bunyan! Our aging population deserves equal access!
Jackie Geddes
Everett
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