Mt Roberts

One of the biggest tourist attractions right in downtown is the Mount Roberts Tram.  It goes from the cruise ship dock up 1800' to a restaurant, gift shop, and hiking trails.  The ride up is expensive, but if you walk up, they'll let you ride down for $10!  

Therefore, we walked up.  Two Fridays aback, I hiked Mt Roberts with Captain Liz and her friend Peggy.  The trail is about a mile long and gains approximately 1600'.  The day had started out cloudy but opened up quite beautifully.

It was a gorgeous hike despite the ridiculously crazy amounts of pollen in the air.  The spruce trees have been incredibly efficient pollinators this season and my normally dark green car has been lime green for about 2 weeks now.  It's nuts! 

We got up in just under an hour; should have taken less time but we stopped for pictures a lot.  When we finally got up to the top, we had a late lunch (which thankfully counted as spending out $10 for our ride back down the mountain).

One of these days I plan to go hike up around the trails at the top of the tram and maybe make it up to the summit at 3200'.  Here's to hoping that all the snow melts off the sop soon!

Peggy, Liz, and me

View of downtown and my apartment (wayyy in the distance!) from halfway up

Fairy Cups

We made it!!!