John Wayne Trail/Iron Horse State Park
I took a little bike ride this weekend to the Iron Horse State Park. There is a bike trail there called the John Wayne trail. As you might guess from the name, it is a converted rail line. It parallels Interstate 90 across a good portion of the state. I did a 20 mile section from Rattlesnake Lake up to Snoqualmie pass.
It was a long climb but since it is a rail line the grade is quite gradual. You wouldn’t really even notice it was going uphill. The trail has amazing views and about half a dozen trestle bridges which are worth the price of admission.
Yeah, wow!
The trail is hard packed gravel so you need a mountain bike. I could have used shock absorbers too.
It’s a bone shaker :
As I said, lots of great views
Ever present views of I-90
But the bridges…
The best part though was at the top of the pass you run into this
What’s this now?
The Snoqualmie Tunnel. Can you see the light at the end of it? Its one pixel
And from the inside
The tunnel is over two miles long and it is dark (and haunted 
, (just kidding about the haunted part (I think))) . I had a head lamp and brought a flashlight as a backup. As soon as I got in there I took out the flashlight and used both.
I said you don’t really notice the uphill on the way but once I turned around I was amazed at how much faster I was going so that was cool. Didn’t stop me from being worn out at the end. It was a great adventure though! Much recommended. 
[Added: Here is the Garmin track for that ride. I inexplicably didn’t have my watch charged up so I had to use my backup GPS device 
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