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| Madeleine is so stylish! Welcome to Mt. Rainier |
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| "...the most luxuriant and most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings." John Muir, conservationist, 1889 |
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| Hiking on the Lakes Trail |
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| Mt. Rainier reflection. It was a little breezy so the reflection is not perfect. |
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| This could be a postcard! |
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| There were so many flowers along the trails. I read a sign that said the flowers bloom for 6 weeks a year. We definitely timed our visit right! |
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| This is as high as we hiked up the mountain. This is where the snow began to overtake the trail at Glacier Vista. I never realized that there are about 20 glaciers on Mt. Rainier. Each valley you can see behind the kids is a named glacier. |
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| This is looking down the trail we hiked up. We started below the dark trees in the middle of the photo and hiked up for one mile. It was a grueling mile, at least for the older generation! |
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| I finally caught a bear on camera! This bear was in the Paradise area at Mt. Rainier. I was watching out the car window, down into a beautiful valley. I said, "If I was a bear, I would live in that meadow and never leave." As soon as I said that I spotted this guy! What a great ending to our trip. |
1 comment:
When I saw the pictures of the redwoods, I immediately wanted to go back. All of the pictures are beautiful, but I really enjoy the ones with at least one member of the family in them. When I look at old pictures, they mean more when someone I know is in them. Otherwise, just like you mentioned after one of your pictures, it could be a postcard. I am happy that you had this experience.
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