A great picture of why I have not been posting on my blog much this winter. Washington has such great mountains I’ve spent almost every weekend skiing.
Mount Rainier seen from the top of Crystal
In The Mountains
Tag: Mt Rainier
Go Visit a Glacier
This week my good friend Ben’s cross country road trip finally took him close to Seattle. He wanted to climb some mountains, though there are lots of mountains nearby, one really stands out.
Rainier as seen from the banks of White River, near our campsite.
Sunrise lookout point, the mountain doesn’t look so big from up here.
Leaving from Sunrise, ready to start.
Above the tree line its like we landed on another planet.
I think it says “this way to mountain”.
A few park rangers wielding shovels.
That’s a very large mountain.
The mountain man in his native habitat.
A fantastic way too cook tuna.
We are about 7000′ up and Rainier extends at least another 7000′ further.
Rainier is taking up more and more of the horizon.
The end goal of our hike, still miles away.
Sometimes, you have to go down to go up.
No a glacier, but a little bit of snow.
Walking across a pumice field is like being on the moon.
We won’t be going to the top today, Ben.
Other than Rainier we are the tallest in the land.
Still a really tall mountain.
With a peak still very far away.
Yellow and red grass seem to be the norm here, very alien.
Looking down into the valley, as we are still above the tree line.
Another view of White River and its source.
A refreshing break on the way back at Shadow Lake.
The Journey Home
After the day in Colorado we returned to are odd little motel as we wound need to get up very early to get us all to the airport. A fitting last picture for the vacation is Mt. Rainier as seen from the flight before landing in Seattle.
Mt Rainier
It has taken me so long to go trough my photos and upload all the posts with captions from this vacation that this weekend the Bostonians are flying our to Seattle to visit again.
A Clash of Coasts 