Two major uphill climbs.
I took a good walk today, taking a path and overall journey never before tried with my previous walkabouts. I even came up with a name for it: the “antennae to antennae hike.”
I started on Broadway Ave., located on Capitol Hill, which (to people unfamiliar with this area) is about two-thirds the way up one of the tallest hills in Seattle. I descended it, then ambled west through the South Lake Union district, and then turned north up to the crest of Queen Anne Hill. Queen Anne Hill is somewhat taller than Capitol Hill. And like Capitol Hill, it is home to three television and radio transmitters.
Once I reached the very uppermost intersection on Queen Anne, I went back down the hill, traversed along the eastern fringe of Belltown (which is south of South Lake Union and equally flat as the former) until I ended up back in downtown (which is south of Belltown). Then I climbed the entire grade of Capitol Hill, all the way to the uppermost intersection of that hill’s peak near the transmitters.
Then I came home, picking some sweet, delicious cherries from trees along my cool-down route, and I drank a lot of Gatorade. The endorphin/dopamine rush was such that I was laughing and decidedly feeling under the influence of an endogenous opiate.
That was cool.