Meet the guerilla gardener of Seattle's 520 bike path

The rain has returned to the Seattle area, leaves are falling, and that means bike paths are getting clogged up with debris. On the State Route 520 bike path, one man has made it his mission to keep the busy trail clear and safe.

It’s a little after 6 o’clock on a weekday and bike commuters are riding home across the 520 floating bridge bike trail. The path runs parallel to the highway that connects Seattle to the Eastside across Lake Washington.

As bicyclists and scooters make their way across the floating bridge and into Kirkland, one man is not enjoying his evening bike ride.

Instead, he’s cutting back vines with an electric hedge trimmer way above his head. Meet 67-year-old mechanical engineer Lee Zuhars.

“I have to watch out because I don't want to trip other cyclists,” Zuhars said. "People aren't ready for somebody cleaning on the trail. I put my bucket out sometimes, my warning bucket.”

Zuhars doesn’t work for Washington state, which owns this trail. And he doesn’t live in one of the houses nearby.