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16 For a short day’s run in the backwoods country, with an occasional city along the route, the trip mapped out to Edmonds, Everett, Snohomish and return by way of Bothell is one that is featured by diversified scenery and good roads practically all the way. The circuit calls for 75.7 miles of travel. This distance is ideal for the motorist who delights in traveling leisurely and prefers a picnic luncheon to one in a restaurant. There are numerous attractive luncheon stops along the road, while in Everett and Snohomish one may obtain good restaurant accommodations.

In leaving Seattle, one drives over the Westlake Boulevard, skirting the western shores of Lake Union, through Fremont and past beautiful Woodland Park. From the summit of the hill one obtains a splendid panoramic view of Puget Sound with the rugged, snow-capped Olympic Mountains towering high into the sky in the background.

Continuing northward, the car reached the city limits, where the Golf Club road begins. This thoroughfare is closed temporarily on account of construction work, and it is necessary to travel eastward a short distance to the new brick-paved North Trunk road. This splendid highway is followed for a short distance, and then a side road leads back to the Golf Club road, which takes one through attractive wooded country and past the beautiful grounds of the club, ten miles from the city.

Beyond the Golf Club the road takes an easy grade down to the town of Edmonds, 16.7 miles from Seattle. Along the route to Edmonds, one obtains numerous glimpses of Puget Sound, from which there is a cooling breeze to add to the enjoyment of motoring in warm weather.

From Edmonds the route leads up over the hill that overlooks Puget Sound and the Olympic Range, traversing a prairie country that at this time of the year is a favorite field for berry pickers. The Times pathfinder counted no less than fifty persons along the route picking blackberries.

A ride of 22.3 miles from Seattle brings the motorist to Martha Lake, a beautiful body of fresh water hidden in the woods. Here is an ideal luncheon spot; or, if one

is not hungry, he will find a short stop near the cool waters of the lake inviting. About three miles farther on the Pacific Highway is reached, and this route is followed north.

Silver Lake, 30.3 miles from Seattle by way of Edmonds, is a beautiful spot, and offers countless picnicking spots. Six miles farther on over the Pacific Highway is Everett, on Puget Sound, where the motorist may obtain good meals and automobile supplies of all kinds.

From Everett to Snohomish there are two routes. The pathfinder preferring the one by way of Lowell because of the absence of grades and the fact that it traverses the western and southern edges of the great Snohomish Valley. There are many miles of paved roads, too.

At a point 44.4 miles from Seattle there is a fork in the highway. The left branch leads into Snohomish, 1.2 miles, and the right fork leads to Bothell, the return route. Should the motorist care to take