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Book Review: Mt. Rainier Trails

Posted in Book Reviews, Gear, hiking, tagged , , , , on December 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It was mid-September 2009. I knew I was hiking on borrowed time – if I were to see a set of lakes I lusted after, it was go then, or wait maybe years to get back. I was also a couple of months pregnant and on my slope to anemia-ville. It wasn’t a long hike but it [...]

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Dayhiking Berkeley Park

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , on August 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Saturday I went to Sunrise at Mt. Rainier National Park with Janelle and we hiked to Berkeley Park. I hadn’t been down that trail since 2004, when Ford and I did a death march from Sunrise through Berkeley to Grand Park and back. I enjoyed the trail this time, seeing it almost as I had never done it before. [...]

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Wildflower Wanderings

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Waking up at 5:30 am wasn’t easy but it paid off. My friend Janelle and I went up to Chinook Pass near Mt. Rainier for an easy dayhike of Naches Peak Loop. Why? Wildflowers! It is a hike I get in 1 to 2 times a year usually, it is pretty…you get to be on the Pacific [...]

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Along The Carbon River – Spring Hiking

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , , , on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Do you have a hike that says “Spring” to you? In the past couple years it has become the Carbon River on the far side of Mount Rainier National Park. Or should I say now that past 5 years? It has been that long I realized today as we were hiking, since the destruction from [...]

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Vintage Book Find: Exploring Mount Rainier

Posted in Book Reviews, hiking, tagged , , , , , on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

If you watched the series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” (and if you haven’t you better!) and you watched episode 4, there is an older lady interviewed, Ruth Kirk. To get a feeling of how many books she wrote read this article on her from last year. So I was a wee bit excited [...]

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Summer Dreaming – Indian Bar

Posted in hiking, photos, tagged , , , , , on April 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I get asked often about what I think the prettiest section of the Wonderland Trail is. To me that would be the section where you leave the trees on the Cowlitz Ridge to Indian Bar and then to Summerland and below to the flower fields. The trail from either direction isn’t easy nor is it [...]

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In Rainier News – A Happy Sarah

Posted in hiking, tagged , , , , , on February 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »

While not everyone is happy with the recent announcement that Mt. Rainier National Park would declare the Carbon River Road officially a trail, I was excited to hear it. The Carbon is so different from the rest of the park, it has its own feeling. The first time as an adult I visited the area [...]

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Snowshoeing Mazama Ridge At Mt. Rainier

Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, tagged , , , , , on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Mt. Rainier is pretty all year but there is something about the period between December and March, when the upper reaches are blanketed heavily in snow. No paltry amounts either, Rainier is a master at creating her own weather and often is hidden behind heavy clouds for weeks on end. Dumping and dumping snow. If [...]

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