Emerald City Wanderers

I was looking up things to do during Labor Day Weekend that wasn’t Bumbershoot. The options were few, since they would be competing with Bumbershoot.
I found the The Emerald City Wanderers Volkksport Club because they had a walk on Saturday (Sept 5), called «Celebrate American Labor — a working waterfront walk in the Duwamish Waterway area.»
It was a non-​competitive 10k or 5k walk through West Seattle.
My friend and I showed up late, but were able to get a list of instructions for the 5k. It was a nice day so we took in some sights since either of us ever go to West Seattle (and certainly don’t go walking around in it). We did get lost a couple times and that was confusing (explaining that we wanted to continue walking and not quit and go home to the volunteers who were picking up their signs) and amusing (hiking up this rocky steep hill to get back on course) and kind of scary (we were at this underpass where there were cars parked with people sleeping/​living in them).
But the gist of the club is that the members find walks in various neighborhoods, write down instructions and then they have several organized group walks a year. You can also buy a patch ($ 8) when you complete a walk… which I did. I’m looking forward to getting a sash to hold all my «prizes» (the lady at the check in table kept telling us that we had to return to collect our prize, it was really cute).
We would walk again, but probably wouldn’t start as late as we did (we were 30mins late). As mentioned earlier, there were spots where it was more shady, perhaps if we were in a group it wouldn’t be as scary. Also, I think a few of the instructions were off (a «left» instead of «right») and a bit unclear. We back-​tracked a couple times and on the second time, decided to just keep following their signs (there were paper signs and ribbons along the way), sometimes there was no signage for a while other times there were three within eyesight.
But the folks were pretty nice and it’s something random, easy, fun to do when it’s nice out. :)