98-02-10, I wrote:

<< ...(snip)... for the 2-1/2 hour walk covering 3-1/4 miles round trip
between 6:06
(late dusk) - 8:36pm, starting at the Redtown trailhead (Redtown Trail) to
Ballpark Meadow (3/4 mile), Indian Trail to the north boundary (7/8 mile) and
retracing the route back to the Redtown trailhead and carpark.... (snip)....

Oops -- that should have read ..."Indian Trail to the *south* boundary"...
The maps are orientated upside-down, north being at the bottom, south at the
top. It would be a lot less confusing to everyone if the King County
Department of Parks would just follow the general recognized standard of map
making and orientation and let the rest of us peons figure it out for
ourselves.

Now don't someone say 'well, just turn the map upside-down if I don't like the
current layout' -- I don't have time to be wasting precious seconds of my life
to figure that out and do it ;-) This whole area over here in the Newport
Hills area is confusing enough without the county deciding to make it more so
by turning it all upside-down. God help the poor taxi and airport shuttle
drivers and emergency services in *this* neighborhood! :-)) Same can be said
for all the other 'high end' housing areas in this crinked neck of the woods.
And for those of you who *live* in these areas, my guess is that you need a
GPS just find your way home at night which probably takes hours of being lost
and pulling into wrong driveways ;-)) The 'homing instinct' just to go over
the hill doesn't work here -- I know; I've tried and failed every time for
years!

Long live the hinterlands of the Okanogan!

Richard Rowlett (Pagodroma at aol.com)
47.56N, 122.13W
(Seattle/Bellevue, WA USA)