connector between the Shangri-La Trail and Surprise Creek Trail. It links the northern and southern halves of the Precipice Trail. E9: Protector Trail - Trail begins along Tibbett's Marsh Trail and runs to an indistinct spur of AA Peak that forms a wall containing the wetland. Originally this ridge was not in the Park, and Harvey Manning feared it would be developed. Now it is deep inside the Park and the trail links to the Shangri-La Trail. E10: West Tibbetts Creek Trail - Trail begins along the Tibbetts Marsh Trail, at a bend. The trail descends gently along a shallow ravine of the creek until it meets the Bear Ridge Trail. A lower, unofficial section formerly reaching the Bear Ridge trailhead on SR900 is impassable due to disuse and course changes in West Tibbetts Creek. E11: Squak Mountain Connector Trail (formerly Old Ford Trail)- Trail traverses east from lower section of Gombu Wilderness Cliffs trail past the former site of a wrecked Ford, and then down to a pullover parking spot on SR-900 . The driveway across from the pullover gives informal access to the West Access trail in the Squak Mountain State Park trail system E12: Red Cedars Trail - Trail descends from Surprise Creek Trail to the top of Big Tree Ridge. E13: Precipice Top Trail - Trail traverses from Surprise Creek Trail to Military Ridge Trail shortly before its junction with Big Tree Ridge Trail. Reconstructed & rerouted 2014. E14: Military Ridge Trail - Originally a section of the Military Road, the trail descends from Big Tree Ridge Trail, soon passing Precipice Top Trail, crossing two creeks and briefly leaving public land to reach an old roadbed where it becomes the Telephone Trail and descends to Harvey Manning Park (City of Issaquah). E15: Big Tree Ridge Trail - From a gated trailhead (pullover parking) on Newport Way .5 miles from the Issaquah Park & Ride, the trail follows an old road grade through an alder swamp before ascending Big Tree Ridge above AA Creek, with winter views of Lake Sammamish and the Coastal Range. At a southerly switchback .4 mi. from the trailhead a short connector joins unobtrusively to the Precipice Bottom Trail (unofficial). Just above the final crest it reaches Military Ridge Trail (descending to Issaquah trails) shortly before the Red Cedars Trail (ascending to County trails). A short loop of the historic route on the