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Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on May 14th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, hiking on May 4th, 2011
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in hiking on Feb 14th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Feb 8th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Gear, hiking, Hiking Gear on Dec 19th, 2010
A little while ago I was excited to hear the news about the newest Mt. Rainier map that was being debuted by Green Trails. Green Trails is the king of hiking maps out here in Washington and Oregon, offering highly detailed topo maps that are overall accurate and most of all…show mileage! (nothing worse than [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Dec 12th, 2010
Back in June I had won a Twitter contest sponsored by Visit Rainier, of which I won gift certificates to be used for a nights stay near The Mountain. We had talked about doing a fall trip but then we headed out the Smokies instead, suddenly we were in December and needed to use them [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Sep 11th, 2010
This morning was a chilly one and it only got colder as we drove higher into the mountains, though it only hit 41° for the low. The western side of the state was shrouded in clouds, crossing over into the eastern side brought a warming sun and blue skies. A nice combo overall. We parked [...]
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