Little Si, WA + Snoqualmie Falls

March 22, 2021 by Piotr

Distance: approx 4 miles
Time: 3.5hrs
Kids age: kid 1: almost 4, kid 2: 10 months
Happiness: 5/5
Date hiked: 2021-03-12
Pass needed: Discover Pass

In terms of the views, Little Si is not the most spectacular. If you are looking for a hike with a higher reward-to-effort ratio, checkout Rattlesnake Ledge. At the top, you finish it on the piece of rock surrounded by trees. But shortly before the top, you get some views north and east.

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We left Kirkland around 12:30 pm on Friday and got to the trailhead around 1:20 pm (with a stop at REI in Issaquah to purchase Discover Pass – ours expired at the end of February). fed the baby, and we started hiking at 1:30 pm and finished around 5 pm (3.5 hrs). The weather was just perfect. If you have more time, you can add the Boulder Garden Loop for an extra 1.3 miles. We spent probably 20-30 minutes at the top, feeding both kids 🙂 I also let the youngling walk around a bit in his awesome socks, which awarded me a reprimand from Ola for getting the socks and clothes dirty. Apparently, I was supposed to pick a cleaner rock to walk and crawl on, not the muddy one.

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When driving back to Seattle, you can combine this trip with Snoqualmie falls. Friday late afternoon in March works great because 1) the light is soft from the sunset 2) there aren’t too many people. Really, there were only a handful of people, and the parking lot was mostly empty — unlike the weekend craziness. We’ve been there for approx 25 minutes, from 5:55 – 6:20 pm, catching the sunset. Antek wasn’t entirely content: he saw a train depot in Snoqualmie, and by the time he internalized the question “would you rather see the trains or the waterfall” we were past the trains and on the way to the waterfall. We will see the trains some other time 🙂

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