the Cascade Trail. Soft surfaced and practically level, this former rail line travels for 23 miles from Sedro-Woolley to Concrete, much of it through farmlands, forests and wetlands; a particularly scenic stretch just outside of Lyman even takes you right along the Skagit River. A few of my fellow Skagit Runners club members and I frequently do what we have dubbed the “Annie’s Pizza Run”—a one-way from Sedro-Woolley to Annie’s Pizza in Concrete, a nice place to restore 23 mile’s worth of lost calories. If you plan on doing your own version of this run, be sure to arrange for a shuttle, lest you want to run 23 miles more back continued >>>
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