589. Tree-Covered Mountain
A stroll on the way up a lovely tree-covered mountain that still has some terrific views from the top, too!

Don't let the name fool you: although once famed for its old-growth trees on slopes too steep to be logged, there are still some lovely views from the rock ledges on top of this mountain as well. However, to find this little "rock-stamp", you don't have to climb all the way up to the top if you don't want to. A ten-minute stroll along the lower reaches of the trail, with a pleasant rocky gurgling mountain stream to your left should suffice, if you are short on time or energy. To get the name of the trail and mountain, simply take the name of this clue and omit letters 4-11, 14, and 17-19, and you should have it! Now google it to find out where to begin or use a handy-dandy "50 Hikes"-type book. Once up the trail past the "corduroy logs" section, start looking left for an "L-shaped" tree sitting on a rock just a few feet off trail. Remove the 8-inch rock in front of the flat sitting rock to find a round gray 2-inch stone with trail stamp on back in the right side of the cavity under the sitting rock. If you reach a large cave-like rock formation with moss on top and evergreen bushes sticking out like a crazy hairstyle trailside left, you have gone about 70 steps past the "L-tree", but continuing up the trail is, of course, always its own reward!

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