Mount Rainier Campsite...

This is the beautiful Mt. Rainier. This mountain looms on the horizon at Seattle. We travelled about 2 hours to get to the Mt. Rainier National Park and it sure was worth it. The first day we arrived it was raining and cloudy so instead of finding a campground we went back to the nearest town (Enumclaw) and stayed there the night, in a motel. The next day was beautiful and we travelled up to the National Park and stayed in a lovely campsite at "White River". This shot shows the river in the foreground. Our campsite was just a few feet away from where this photo was taken. We did a lovely hike up to the "Glacial Basin". It was a picturesque hike which went through a variety of landscapes. Everything from pine needled covered forest floors, rock hopping over river crossings, steep ascents to wild flowered meadows. Samara and I stopped when the trail was marked as being unmaintained from a certain point, which was at the glacial basin, but Mal decided to go on, as he wanted to actually get to the glacier and touch it. Of course, that is another story and I will leave that to him. Samara's love of hiking hasn't improved and she is longing to get back to the coast and the bigger cities. (she loved Seattle). The scenery around here is spectacular. There is 25 glaciers on Mt. Rainier. Today, we drove around the National Park but due to a particularly bad flood in November, 2006, the road that we would of taken had been washed out in 4 places and we had to do a 3 hour detour. Luckily, it was a very scenic route and well worth it.
Luv from Wendy.