A week ago I went on an adventure with 4 of my friends to Discovery Park in Seattle. Awesome place to explore and had a few close calls toward the end.





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The park is home to many trails and even a small military base, we chose to head to the beach first off and explore from there.



A ways down there was an old lighthouse in the process of being restored, and it was at this point that me and Michael discovered... The cliff. We had already noticed on the beach a ways down the small landslides made of clay, and this huge landslide begged us to climb it.



We started running down the beach, just because we had high energy and wanted to let it out and almost missed this baby seal who looked lost. or maybe he just wanted a sweet tan, had to whip out my camera and snap a few of this guy before he wandered back into the water to find his mother.



Brandi and my other friends Seth and Peter were forced to play in the clay for a while longer, as me and Michael took on the challenge presented before us.



I'd never tried to climb a landslide, and didn't know what to expect. We made it up the first part of the slide, it was a bit steeper than it looked. Clay is a bit slippery and made it a bit more difficult. In the above picture we were currently stuck at the near vertical top of the first climp, we ended up having to dig footholds for the rest of the way up in the hardish clay.



I had decided to take my 7D up with me on the climb as I had no idea where we would end up, iPhone photos only. I'm glad I ended up bringing my backpack bag rather than a shoulder bag. You can see us almost to the top in the above pictures and the 3 dots that were our other friends at the bottom.



Once we reached the top, all thought of taking pictures was gone. It was simply the most incredible view of mother natures power I had ever seen. Clay formations that looked like stone were everywhere, the entire land mass we were walking on was slanted, and filled with cracks. If you take a look at the above picture you can see that the entire side of the mountain slid off, and created the land we were walking on. We had decided to travel toward those cliffs and search for another way we could get down.

It's a surreal feeling walking on rough clay terrain with all trees slanted from the fall. The landslide had taken all trees and brought them down with it, we were walking through a slanted forest. We encountered quick sand 5 times and again when we finally found a way down. clay ooze had covered what was left of the beech and made walking back difficult. I need a helmet cam and to go back and record everything we walked through.