"Solo hike today with a late start. It was pretty toasty up there for Seattle standards, probably 85F. Parking lot was about half full when I left @ noonish (Monday). Sticks are nice as it was moderately rocky on the bottom half, eases/speeds up your descent. The haystack is worth it, go all the way if you dare!" — zachmitch • Aug 22, 2022

"Northbend Trifecta - This is a local challenge few have accomplished – A series of three peak summits I have only read about and given my recent push to climb more and summit more and push harder, I thought after a week of summits – Mount St. Helens, Mailbox Peak 2X, Dirty Box, Teneriffe Kamikaze Route I was ready for this undertaking. It was also an opportunity to put myself in the finishers’ spot with the PNW Peakbaggers Facebook Group’s challenge to visually summit Mount Everest by gaining the total altitude beginning April 15th. Here goes! I completed the North Bend Trifecta today!: Mailbox Peak Old Trail, Mount Teneriffe Kamikaze Route, Mount Si Old Trail – up and down each one. 11,609 feet gain, 19+ miles, 17+hours. MPB was a breeze and I ran into our own PNW Peak Bagger group founder and leader – Bill Goodgion descending the summit! Kamikaze was slow with all the precipitation making the rocks and roots on the ridge and steep approach super slick, and 6″ of new powder on the final 500′ make it slippery and slow. Did Si in the pitch dark – first time on the Old Trail. I was the only human on the mountain tonight, but not alone – my axe was in my hand the entire time! The w..." — markhadland • Apr 24, 2021

"Headed back up after completing one loop already. Traffic started picking up with a lot more groups, but all were friendly and we're polite enough to make room for this power hiker and downhill running guy." — CraigArnold2 • Aug 11, 2018

"Too wet at the summit block for me to feel comfortable making it to the top. But a magnificent view from this peak! Hiked with Ryan Byers and Marissa Dreyer, both of whom braved the wet scramble and made it to the summit." — robkleffner • Aug 11, 2018

"Started off at 0700, and got to the top in 80 minutes after power hiking. The clouds we're still pretty thick, but well above the summit so made for some nice dark colored photos. Descent took about 55 minutes of good downhill running. Took a alfew minutes to refit at the truck and started back up for a second climb." — CraigArnold2 • Aug 11, 2018

"Belated start to my training for the Emmons Route on Rainier. Made it to the misty top in 80 minutes, then waded back through the stream of ear-budded hikers. One guy was running laps up and down the mountain, he was starting his 3rd trip up when I got to the bottom." — TynanRammGranberg • Apr 29, 2018

"Time to the top area (base of haystack), 2 hours (pretty good for me!). Scrambled up wet rock to the haystack summit in 45 min. Snowing and strong, cold wind on top. Question: the Green Trails map says the "twin peak" just behind (north of) the haystack is the true summit at 4167 ft. Is this true? The elevations must be very close. Do people go to the north summit via the little razorback between the two peaks? I wasn't going to try it without protection in driving snow today :) 3500 ft gain, 8 miles, 5:30 hrs" — markgarrett • Mar 23, 2016

"Just documenting - reached the top of the trail in 1 hour and 35 minutes and the base of the haystack in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Too icy to climb that day.....back down to the car in 57 minutes. " — BryHong8 • Feb 6, 2016

"Did an after work training hike up Mount Si with fully loaded packs. It's been years since we've been on the trail, and it's in great shape. Switchbacks weren't quite as bad as I remembered, and at least at the beginning, it was nice to be in the shaded forest. The goal today was speed with big packs, and fortunately, starting at 5:00 meant we ran into very few people so we were able to go as fast as we were able to. We reached the base of the Haystack in 1 hour 50 minutes. We ditched the packs and scrambled up the Haystack. Other than a kid scrambling up there and back in half our time (ah, to be young again), we were the only ones on the rock, which was great. We enjoyed some nice views as the sun was beginning it's decent over the Olympics. From the base of the Haystack, we got back to the trailhead in just under an hour, as there were only 7 or 8 groups coming up, so we were able to push ourselves. Overall, a great workout that we would recommend for a long summer afternoon evening. The crowds were nothing like I'm sure they are every weekend. " — BryHong8 • Jun 4, 2015

"Flashed up the new trail this morning experimenting with a secret project for peakery. Still proving it out but so far pretty cool. Passed a ton of army guys as set a new PR 1:12 to rocks, 1:22 to top of Haystack. Good enough for King of the Mountain on Strava, awww yeah. Perfect sunny day. RT in 2:14. " — scott • May 21, 2015