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September 17, 2012
Mount Rainier is hard for me to get my head around. It is an incredible (to this flatlander) 14,410 feet tall. The weather at the top is much different than the weather at the bottom. In fact I think ...
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August 25, 2012
The Mount Rainier Gondola took us up to 6,872 feet of elevation, but we were determined to get back down to the base of Crystal Mountain Resort all on our own. We decided to take the slow route, and ...
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August 01, 2012
No Summer is complete without a trip to Paradise and Mt. Rainier. Throughout the day, Mt. Rainier flirted with the clouds and we enjoyed the sunshine and clear hiking trails. Most people are drawn by ...
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July 25, 2012
Two visits in July yielded two vastly different moods on the mountain. The first trip was rainy, cold, windy and fit my needs perfectly. We entered from the west side of the mountain...
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July 16, 2012
Sunday morning we checked out of our hotel and went in search of breakfast. We found a couple good-looking places in the middle of Seattle, where there is no parking. So, we kept driving and eventuall...
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September 24, 2011
To witness the Milky Way draped across a northwest sky, we had driven to Mt. Rainier – our second time in four weeks – to avoid the light pollution caused by Seattle and Tacoma. A couple of hours past...
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September 18, 2011
Standing in the middle of a flower dotter meadow on the eastern foothill of Mt. Rainier, I felt like an idiot. I have travelled to five continents and a dozen countries in search of photo opportuniti...
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September 10, 2011
Snoqualmie National Forest before we climbed over Chinook Pass and rounded the bend for a magnificent view of Mount Rainer. The ice-capped Mount Rainier, a dormant volcano, stands at 14,411 feet and t...
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September 07, 2011
When our car pulled into the Reflection Lake parking lot at the base of Mt. Rainier, the radiant glow of the clock indicated it was merely 4:30 in the morning. We had left Redmond a couple of hours ea...
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