Remember the Library Hikers who recently completed a series of hikes to all 27 Seattle Public Libraries to get their passports stamped? Now there’s a Seattle man who is running to all the libraries with his passport in hand - but he’s doing it all in one day!
Sam Thompson will start at the Broadview branch [...]

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At 10:30 this morning, 17 members of the Seattle Mountaineers and their friends left the Magnolia Public Library on their 11.8-mile journey to seven libraries in one day. The hikers will walk at about 3 miles per hour and visit the libraries in Queen Anne, Fremont, Wallingford, Green Lake, Greenwood and Ballard by about 4 p.m. today. Here they are just before leaving Magnolia:

At the Magnolia branch, the hikers got a special tour of the renovated library and had their Library Passports stamped. The goal is to get their passports stamped at each city library. Today’s hikers range in age from 24 up into their 70s (an 80-year-old has been on previous library hikes).

Phinney Ridge resident Dru Druzianich isn’t a member of the Mountaineers or a regular user of the library, but decided to sign up for the hike - and plans to use the library system - after reading our original post on PhinneyWood. Here’s Dru in the bright yellow going over the route with hike leader Kathy Biever:

Hiker Louise Mihay (second from left in above photo) came all the way from Olympia with friends and has participated in all the hikes this fall. “This gives us a chance to see Seattle. By the end I’ll have seen most of the neighborhoods,” she told me this morning.

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About 20 members of the Seattle Mountaineers Club will complete an urban hike Friday between seven branches of the Seattle Public Library, including Greenwood. The “27 Lively Libraries” hikers will begin at the Magnolia library at 10 a.m., then hike 11.8 miles to the libraries in Queen Anne (estimated arrival 11:30 a.m.), Fremont (12:15 p.m.), Wallingford [...]

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The Seattle Times reports that a group of Seattle Mountaineers decided to celebrate the completion of the city’s Libraries for All campaign by walking to each of the city’s 27 libraries to get their new library passports stamped.
The group began their hikes in early October by hiking to all five West Seattle libraries in one day. Their longest [...]

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