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  "meta.404.title": "A flat tyre · redmond.ad",
  "nav.skip": "Skip to the words",
  "lost.title": "This page got a flat.",
  "lost.text": "Walk it back home.",
  "lost.home": "Back home",
  "foot.unofficial": "Unofficial",
  "nav.history": "History",
  "nav.play": "Play",
  "nav.sources": "Sources",
  "meta.404.description": "This page got a flat. Walk it back home.",
  "og.404.title": "This page got a flat.",
  "og.404.description": "Walk it back home.",
  "og.404.alt": "A paper cut-out riverside with a little cyclist on a red bike.",
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  "theme.system": "System",
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  "foot.nav": "More",
  "meta.history.title": "History · redmond.ad",
  "history.kicker": "History",
  "history.title": "From the first peoples to today.",
  "history.lede": "Twenty moments along the Sammamish River, from stone tools more than 10,000 years old to trains across the lake. Scroll, and each one pops up from the page.",
  "history.nations.title": "The first peoples, first",
  "history.nations.p1": "The Sammamish River runs through the homelands of Coast Salish peoples, who have lived along it since time immemorial. The people of this river called themselves by a Lushootseed name often translated as \"willow people\".",
  "history.nations.p2": "Their descendants are part of nations here today, among them the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, the Tulalip Tribes and the Duwamish Tribe. Snoqualmie families kept a community longhouse on Lake Sammamish into the 1930s.",
  "history.nations.p3": "The Snoqualmie Tribe asks visitors to its ancestral lands, Lake Sammamish among them, to treat the land with respect: pack out your trash and stay on the trails. Learn from the nations themselves:",
  "history.nations.snoqualmie": "Snoqualmie Indian Tribe",
  "history.nations.muckleshoot": "Muckleshoot Indian Tribe",
  "history.nations.tulalip": "The Tulalip Tribes",
  "history.nations.duwamish": "Duwamish Tribe",
  "history.timeline.title": "Twenty moments",
  "h.01.year": "10,000+ years ago",
  "h.01.title": "Tools and salmon by Bear Creek",
  "h.01.text": "More than 10,000 years ago, people were already making stone tools beside Bear Creek, and salmon were already swimming up it.",
  "h.src.historylink": "Source: HistoryLink.org",
  "h.02.year": "Time immemorial",
  "h.02.title": "The willow people",
  "h.02.text": "Coast Salish peoples have always lived along this river. Its people called themselves by a Lushootseed name often translated as \"willow people\", and they live on in nations here today.",
  "h.02.caption": "Spawning kokanee, the lake's own form of sockeye, in a creek that feeds Lake Sammamish.",
  "h.03.title": "The Treaty of Point Elliott",
  "h.03.text": "On January 22, 1855, at Mukilteo, leaders of the Duwamish, Snoqualmie, Suquamish, Snohomish and other peoples signed the treaty. They gave up most of their land, and kept the right to fish at their usual places.",
  "h.04.title": "Two settler families",
  "h.04.text": "Luke and Kate McRedmond arrived in the spring, and Warren and Laura Perrigo in June.",
  "h.05.title": "Salmonberg, then Melrose, then Redmond",
  "h.05.text": "The place was first called Salmonberg, for the chum salmon that filled its streams, then Melrose, after the Perrigos' busy inn. On March 19, 1883, postmaster Luke McRedmond had the post office renamed Redmond.",
  "h.06.year": "1880s",
  "h.06.title": "Tall timber",
  "h.06.text": "Loggers came for the tall trees, and by the early 1900s lumber and shingle mills hummed along Lake Sammamish.",
  "h.07.title": "The railroad arrives",
  "h.07.text": "The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway reached the village. Trains ran through town until 2008, and the line is a trail now.",
  "h.08.title": "A town of about 300",
  "h.08.text": "On December 31, the last day of the year, Redmond became a town.",
  "h.08.caption": "A boat passes under the wooden Redmond bridge over the Sammamish Slough on May 30, 1913.",
  "h.pd": "public domain",
  "h.09.title": "Bill Brown's brick building",
  "h.09.text": "Bill Brown, later mayor for nearly thirty years, put up a red-brick building downtown that still looks much as it did then.",
  "h.09.caption": "Its neighbour from those years: the old Odd Fellows Hall of 1903, still standing on Leary Way.",
  "h.src.city": "Source: City of Redmond",
  "h.10.title": "The lakes drop",
  "h.10.text": "From August, Lake Washington was lowered about nine feet for the new ship canal. Lake Sammamish dropped too, and the Sammamish River ran faster.",
  "h.11.title": "A brick school",
  "h.11.text": "Redmond built a two-story red-brick school on NE 80th Street, the building known today as the Old Redmond Schoolhouse.",
  "h.11.caption": "The Old Redmond Schoolhouse, built in 1922.",
  "h.12.title": "The Slough Race",
  "h.12.text": "Every year from 1934, boats raced down the winding river in the Sammamish Slough Race.",
  "h.13.title": "A one-dollar park",
  "h.13.text": "The town had bought land for its first park in 1928 for one dollar. In 1938 New Deal workers built its log cabins, and Anderson Park is on the National Register of Historic Places.",
  "h.13.caption": "One of the park's two log cabins, under the firs.",
  "h.14.title": "The first bicycle derby",
  "h.14.text": "In the summer of 1939 the first Redmond Bicycle Derby sent riders around Lake Sammamish, and Derby Days was born.",
  "h.14.caption": "Racers sweep through a corner downtown in a recent Derby Days race.",
  "h.15.title": "Marymoor becomes a park",
  "h.15.text": "Voters approved a bond to buy the old Marymoor farm, and it became King County's very first park.",
  "h.15.caption": "The Clise mansion at Marymoor, begun as a hunting lodge.",
  "h.16.title": "A river made straight",
  "h.16.text": "In the mid-1960s the Army Corps of Engineers straightened the meandering Sammamish River to hold back floods. The work was finished in 1966.",
  "h.16.caption": "The river today at Luke McRedmond Landing, downtown.",
  "h.src.county": "Source: King County",
  "h.17.title": "The velodrome opens",
  "h.17.text": "The concrete oval at Marymoor opened for racing in the spring, and Redmond's love of bikes got a track of its own.",
  "h.src.velodrome": "Source: Marymoor Velodrome Association",
  "h.18.title": "A creek given its bends back",
  "h.18.text": "Redmond gave lower Bear Creek a new, winding channel and a sheltered meeting place with the river, for the salmon.",
  "h.18.caption": "Geese and goslings on the bank of Bear Creek, in late May.",
  "h.src.rco": "Source: Washington Recreation and Conservation Office",
  "h.19.title": "A partner on ancestral lands",
  "h.19.text": "In October, Redmond became a city partner of the Snoqualmie Tribe's Ancestral Lands Movement.",
  "h.20.title": "Trains again, and across the lake",
  "h.20.text": "On May 10, 2025, light rail reached Marymoor Village and Downtown Redmond. On March 28, 2026, the trains began crossing Lake Washington on a floating bridge, a first for any metro line in the world.",
  "h.20.caption": "Marymoor Village station on opening day.",
  "history.end.play": "Now ride the river",
  "history.end.sources": "Every source",
  "meta.history.description": "Redmond from the first peoples of the Sammamish valley to today, as a pop-up timeline: willow people and the treaty, Salmonberg and Melrose, the town of 1912, Derby Days, the velodrome and trains across the lake.",
  "og.history.title": "From the first peoples to today.",
  "og.history.description": "Redmond's story in twenty moments, from more than 10,000 years ago to trains across the lake.",
  "og.history.alt": "A paper timeline winding like a trail, with years on little signposts beside the Sammamish River.",
  "h.02.alt": "Underwater view of a bright red salmon with a green head swimming over rounded stones, with more salmon behind it.",
  "h.08.alt": "Black and white photograph of a narrow river with a long wooden trestle bridge behind it, a small boat on the water, and sandy banks.",
  "h.09.alt": "A white two-storey wooden hall with a steep gable and a round window, with a tall tree beside it.",
  "h.11.alt": "A long two-storey brick school building with rows of tall windows and a flagpole in front.",
  "h.13.alt": "A low log cabin with a mossy shingled roof sits among tall evergreens, with a green lawn in front.",
  "h.14.alt": "A long line of cyclists in team jerseys races around a street corner under leafy trees.",
  "h.15.alt": "A long brown shingled house with tall chimneys behind a wide green lawn, framed by a large shade tree.",
  "h.16.alt": "A calm river passes under a concrete road bridge, mirroring blue sky and bare trees, with golden reeds on the near bank.",
  "h.18.alt": "Canada geese and fluffy grey goslings stand on a green lawn beside a slow creek lined with leafy trees.",
  "h.20.alt": "A blue and white light rail train stands at a new open-air platform with lamp posts and a glass stair tower behind.",
  "meta.home.title": "redmond.ad · Redmond, on two wheels",
  "home.clock.in": "in Redmond",
  "home.title.1": "Redmond,",
  "home.title.2": "on two wheels.",
  "home.lede": "Redmond calls itself the Bicycle Capital of the Northwest, and the trail along the Sammamish River shows why. An unofficial invitation: its parks, its story, and a ride you can take from here.",
  "home.ride-along": "Ride along ↓",
  "home.play": "Ride the river",
  "home.places.title": "Places along the way",
  "place.idylwood.kicker": "Morning, Lake Sammamish",
  "place.idylwood.title": "Idylwood Park",
  "place.idylwood.text": "Seventeen acres on the shore of Lake Sammamish, with a swimming beach, a fishing pier and room for a picnic. It is the only free way down to the water on the whole lake, and more than 42,000 people come each summer.",
  "home.maps": "Open in Maps",
  "home.photo": "Photo:",
  "place.marymoor.kicker": "The top of the lake",
  "place.marymoor.title": "Marymoor Park and its velodrome",
  "place.marymoor.text": "King County's most popular park spreads over 640 acres at the north end of Lake Sammamish. Its velodrome opened in 1975: a 400-meter concrete oval, the only one in Washington, where riders race on summer Friday nights.",
  "place.river-trail.kicker": "Along the river",
  "place.river-trail.title": "The Sammamish River Trail",
  "place.river-trail.text": "Ten paved miles follow the river from Marymoor Park to Bothell, where the Burke-Gilman Trail carries on toward Seattle. On clear days the valley opens up to the Cascade foothills and Mount Rainier.",
  "place.connector.kicker": "Through the middle of town",
  "place.connector.title": "The Redmond Central Connector",
  "place.connector.text": "Trains ran through the heart of town on this line from 1889 to 2008. Now it is a 3.9-mile trail, finished in 2025, and Redmond was the first city to complete its whole piece of the Eastrail.",
  "place.downtown-park.kicker": "Noon, the town square",
  "place.downtown-park.title": "Downtown Park",
  "place.downtown-park.text": "Redmond's town square opened in 2018: two acres of raised lawn, a splash pad, and a pavilion called Buoyant whose water wall glows with light shows after dark.",
  "place.anderson-park.kicker": "Under the big trees",
  "place.anderson-park.title": "Anderson Park",
  "place.anderson-park.text": "Redmond's first park: the town bought the land in 1928 for one dollar, and in 1938 New Deal workers built its log cabins and picnic shelter. The whole park is on the National Register of Historic Places.",
  "place.derby-days.kicker": "Every July",
  "place.derby-days.title": "Derby Days",
  "place.derby-days.text": "Redmond's summer festival began in 1939 with a bicycle derby around Lake Sammamish. On Saturday morning children ride decorated bikes in the Kids' Bike Parade, and then comes the Grand Parade.",
  "place.farrel-mcwhirter.kicker": "Evening on the farm",
  "place.farrel-mcwhirter.title": "Farrel-McWhirter Farm Park",
  "place.farrel-mcwhirter.text": "A 68-acre city farm where children can meet the animals and the ponies, free, every day. Elise Farrel-McWhirter, a keen horsewoman, left it to the city when she died in 1971, and its old barns and silo still stand.",
  "home.onward.title": "The end of the trail, for now.",
  "home.onward.lede": "Take the ride yourself, or go back a few thousand years.",
  "home.onward.play.kicker": "The game",
  "home.onward.play.title": "Ride the river",
  "home.onward.play.text": "A lap of the velodrome, then the river trail: pedal in rhythm, shift for the wind, ring your bell to pass, and stop for the geese.",
  "home.onward.history.kicker": "The story",
  "home.onward.history.title": "From the first peoples to today",
  "home.onward.history.text": "Willow people and treaty days, Salmonberg and Melrose, a one-dollar park, a bicycle derby, and trains across the lake.",
  "meta.home.description": "An unofficial invitation to Redmond, Washington, cut from paper: ride along the Sammamish River past its parks, read its story, and play a bike game on the river trail.",
  "og.home.title": "Redmond, on two wheels.",
  "og.home.description": "An unofficial invitation to Redmond, Washington: its parks, its story, and a ride you can take from here.",
  "og.home.alt": "A paper cut-out riverside: foothills, cottonwoods, a sandy trail and a little cyclist on a red bike beside a blue river.",
  "place.idylwood.alt": "A curving gravel shoreline with a strip of grass and tall trees meets calm lake water under heavy clouds.",
  "place.marymoor.alt": "A pale concrete cycling track curves up into a steep bank around a green infield, with evergreen trees beyond.",
  "place.river-trail.alt": "A narrow paved path runs between grassy banks under a clear blue sky, beside a long line of tall column-shaped poplars.",
  "place.connector.alt": "A wide green lawn under a blue sky with white clouds, with a row of tall steel frames across the middle.",
  "place.downtown-park.alt": "A large white wall with the words Downtown Park in black letters, with young trees and a paved walk in front.",
  "place.anderson-park.alt": "A low log cabin with a mossy shingled roof and a small porch sits among tall evergreens, with a green lawn in front.",
  "place.derby-days.alt": "A long line of cyclists in team jerseys races around a street corner under leafy trees on a sunny day.",
  "place.farrel-mcwhirter.alt": "A small white farmhouse with dark green trim and a vine-covered porch stands on a lawn, with tall evergreens behind it.",
  "meta.play.title": "Ride the river · redmond.ad",
  "play.title": "Ride the river.",
  "play.sound": "Sound",
  "play.noscript": "The game needs JavaScript. The words below still tell you about the trail.",
  "play.hud.kmh": "km/h",
  "play.hud.rpm": "rpm",
  "play.hud.gear": "GEAR",
  "play.hud.km": "km",
  "play.hud.sweet": "sweet spot",
  "play.ctl.brake.text": "Brake",
  "play.ctl.shift": "swipe to shift",
  "play.ctl.pedal.text": "Tap to pedal",
  "play.how.kicker": "How to ride",
  "play.how.title": "A lap of the velodrome, then the river.",
  "play.how.pedal.k": "Pedal",
  "play.how.pedal": "Tap the right side (or press Space) once for each turn of the pedals. A steady rhythm near 90 a minute is fastest; mashing tires you out.",
  "play.how.shift.k": "Shift",
  "play.how.shift": "Swipe up or down on the left side (or press up and down). Shift up when your legs spin out, down for bridges and wind.",
  "play.how.track.k": "On the track",
  "play.how.track": "You ride one fixed gear, so up and down move your line instead: stay high on the banking through the turns.",
  "play.how.bell.k": "Bell",
  "play.how.bell": "Ring it (or press B) before you pass walkers, and they step aside. Startle them and you lose points.",
  "play.how.brake.k": "Brake and spot",
  "play.how.brake": "Hold Brake (or the left arrow) to stop for geese. Tap the heron and the leaping salmon (or press S) to spot them.",
  "play.start": "Start riding",
  "play.between.kicker": "Lap done",
  "play.between.title": "One lap in",
  "play.between.s": "s",
  "play.between.text": "Now the river trail, from Marymoor toward Woodinville. Keep right, ring before you pass, and watch the water.",
  "play.between.go": "Onto the trail",
  "play.paused.title": "Paused.",
  "play.paused.go": "Ride on",
  "play.finish.kicker": "The end of the ride",
  "play.finish.points": "points",
  "play.finish.time": "Time",
  "play.finish.passes": "Polite passes",
  "play.finish.smooth": "Smooth pedalling",
  "play.finish.spots": "Heron, salmon and geese",
  "play.finish.best": "Your best:",
  "play.finish.again": "Ride again",
  "play.finish.cards": "See your postcards",
  "play.postcards.title": "Postcards from the trail",
  "play.postcards.lede": "Finish a ride, spot the salmon and the heron, and they come to you.",
  "pc.velodrome.stamp": "Marymoor, 1975",
  "pc.velodrome.title": "The velodrome",
  "pc.velodrome.text": "Riders have raced on the concrete oval at Marymoor since 1975. It is the only velodrome in Washington, and its corners tilt up to 23 degrees.",
  "pc.maps": "Open in Maps",
  "pc.velodrome.how": "Finish a ride to collect it.",
  "pc.derby.stamp": "Derby Days, since 1939",
  "pc.derby.title": "Derby Days",
  "pc.derby.text": "Redmond has raced bikes at Derby Days nearly every summer since 1939, in a race said to be the world's longest-running criterium.",
  "pc.derby.how": "Finish a second ride to collect it.",
  "pc.salmon.stamp": "August to November",
  "pc.salmon.title": "Salmon coming home",
  "pc.salmon.text": "From August to November, salmon swim home up the Sammamish River to spawn in Bear Creek. Chinook, coho and sockeye all run here, and the Chinook are a threatened run.",
  "pc.salmon.how": "Spot a leaping salmon to collect it.",
  "pc.heron.stamp": "April to July",
  "pc.heron.title": "The herons of Marymoor",
  "pc.heron.text": "Great blue herons nest high in the cottonwoods by the river at Marymoor and raise their noisy chicks from April to July.",
  "pc.heron.how": "Spot the heron to collect it.",
  "play.note": "On the real trail: keep right, pass on the left, and give a bell or a friendly \"on your left\" first. King County's regional trails have a 15 mph speed limit.",
  "meta.play.description": "A bike game in paper: one lap of the velodrome at Marymoor Park, then the Sammamish River Trail. Pedal in rhythm, shift for the wind, ring your bell to pass, and stop for the geese.",
  "og.play.title": "Ride the river.",
  "og.play.description": "One lap of the velodrome, then the Sammamish River Trail: pedal in rhythm, ring your bell, stop for the geese.",
  "og.play.alt": "A paper cyclist on a red bike riding the trail beside the river, with a bike computer showing speed, cadence and gear.",
  "play.rig.label": "The game. Space to pedal, up and down to shift, B for the bell, left arrow to brake, S to spot.",
  "play.ctl.bell": "Ring the bell (B)",
  "play.ctl.brake": "Brake, hold (left arrow)",
  "play.ctl.pedal": "Pedal (Space)",
  "meta.sources.title": "Sources · redmond.ad",
  "src.title": "Sources, and thanks",
  "src.lede": "Every fact on redmond.ad was checked against the sources below, and each shows the day it was read. Something wrong or out of date? Write to contact@redmond.ad.",
  "src.nations.title": "The nations' own words",
  "src.nations.lede": "The first peoples of the Sammamish valley, on their own websites. Start here.",
  "src.read": "read",
  "src.places.title": "The places on the ride",
  "src.places.lede": "The parks, the trail, the velodrome and the town, and the saying that names the ride.",
  "src.history.title": "History",
  "src.history.lede": "The twenty moments on the history page.",
  "src.game.title": "Ride the river",
  "src.game.lede": "The velodrome, the trail and the wild neighbours in the game.",
  "src.photos.title": "Photographs",
  "src.photos.lede": "Real photographs of the real places, from Wikimedia Commons, with thanks to everyone who shared them.",
  "src.type.title": "Type",
  "src.type.lede": "The paper scenes and the game are cut in code, here, in your browser. The letters come from others, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.",
  "src.type.fredoka": "by the Fredoka Project Authors",
  "src.type.licence": "licence",
  "src.type.instrument": "by the Instrument Sans Project Authors",
  "src.type.martian": "by the Martian Mono Project Authors",
  "meta.sources.description": "Where every fact and photo on redmond.ad comes from, with the date each source was read.",
  "og.sources.title": "Sources, and thanks",
  "og.sources.description": "Every fact and photo on redmond.ad, and where it comes from.",
  "og.sources.alt": "The words Sources, and thanks on a paper card beside a cut-paper river trail.",
  "js.trail": "The Sammamish River Trail. Keep right, and ring before you pass.",
  "js.pass": "A polite pass, thank you! +{points}",
  "js.startle": "Oops, you startled them. Ring first next time. {points}",
  "js.squeeze": "You squeezed by slowly. A bell is kinder.",
  "js.geese": "Geese crossing! Brake and wait.",
  "js.waited": "You waited for the geese. +{points}",
  "js.spooked": "Honk! You rode into the geese. {points}",
  "js.geese-gone": "The geese are across. Ride on.",
  "js.heron": "A great blue heron! +{points}",
  "js.heron-flew": "The heron flew off down the river.",
  "js.salmon": "A leaping salmon! +{points}",
  "js.salmon-more": "Another salmon. +{points}",
  "js.time": "{time} (+{points})",
  "js.line": "LINE",
  "js.line.high": "HIGH",
  "js.line.mid": "MID",
  "js.line.low": "LOW",
  "js.hint.bell": "Walker ahead: ring your bell (B).",
  "js.hint.wind": "Headwind! Shift down and keep the rhythm.",
  "js.hint.bridge": "A bridge ahead: shift down for the climb.",
  "js.hint.shift": "Your legs are spinning out: shift up.",
  "js.hint.line": "Ride high on the banking through the turns: press up."
}