Elk Bench Trail

Elk Bench Trail is a short, power-hike climb in Washington. The path is graded easy hiking: the effort is in your lungs, not your footing. Its steepest 500 metres run at 24.9% and come almost at once, before your legs have settled. At 2.3 TEP it sits in the easier half of the catalogue. Expect 12 to 20 minutes. East-facing, so it takes the morning sun and is in shade by the afternoon.