Sweat is trickling down your brow now, your thighs and calves are warm and working as they're intended, your mind wandering with your eye; a green and white ferry leaves Coleman Dock, a red and white Coast Guard cutter steams into Elliott Bay, seagulls squawk. A friendly female jogger smiles as she passes coming the other way, you wipe your forehead with your wrist and begin to round Duwamish Head, breathing rhythmically, feeling the sun's glow, smelling salt air. Into full view strides the Olympics, the twin peaks of The Brothers most prominent, their shoulders cloaked in fading snow.
By Greg Johnston | June 23, 2005
The walk: Wrap-around views of Elliott Bay, the Seattle city skyline and the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges await visitors to Admiral Heights, a quiet residential neighborhood on a ridge above Alki Beach in West Seattle.
I started this walk at the intersection of Southwest Admiral Way and California Avenue Southwest, north of the "Junction," the business district that grew out of the convergence of two streetcar lines in the early 1900s.
By Carol Pucci | December 25, 2003
