![]() ![]() "The key is to stay on the trails," said Grate, a computer consultant who's also a local mine expert and hiker. Anyone stepping into the depression to get a closer look at the hole could fall through the thin crust of dirt overlaying the mine opening. ![]() The growing size indicates the debris used to seal the mine shaft 50 years ago has deteriorated. Like other old mine entrances and shaft s that open occasionally on Cougar and Squak mountains, this small piece of Eastside history could swallow a stray animal or unwary hiker. It sits in a 15-foot-wide depression next to a popular hiking and mountain bike trail south of Grand Ridge Park in Issaquah Highlands. The location of the hole has officials worried. Now the old Issaquah Grand Ridge Mine entrance has widened to 1-½ feet in diameter, the size of an office-chair seat. The hole was about the size of a small book when Steve Grate spotted it in January. ![]()
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