Some pics from Mt. Rainier/ Carbon Glacier & River

[southsoundtree]

If you've never been to the PNW, you might enjoy these pictures. Until coming, you'll just have to have a taste.

Its a good place for tree folks to visit, and a solid day's drive to the Redwoods in northern California.

Four years ago I moved to WA from Lake Tahoe coming into a huge storm year. We came to see the destruction from the Carbon Glacier melting, adding to lots of rainwater from storms. The river changed course eating away the road and trail.

Since then, they've made major trail clearance work throughout the park (a friend works/ worked this crew in the summers). They've built many bridges in this Carbon River area, and made a lot of the trail reasonably passable by mountain bikes for 4 miles up the mountain, up to the wilderness area boundary, where we started hiking an additional 3.5 miles to the toe of the glacier.

Just a little PNW tree and mountain eye candy.

http://s658.photobucket.com/albums/uu303...mview=slideshow

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Sweet eye candy! I miss the green and water...much different than here in central TX.

 

[southsoundtree]

When anyone is coming up this way, I'll give out some ideas of places to visit, from what I've learned in the last couple of years, and try to get some recommendations from others for good spots.

 

[Norm_Hall]

Very nice!
My dad's middle name is Rainier, after Mount Rainier. His mom, my Grandma, grew up in NW Washington state and said she could see Mount Rainier out of her bedroom window. Said she got up every morning and gazed at the "magnificent site out my bedroom window".
Got to see it when the ISA conference was in Seattle in 2002? Jim Cass took my dad and I on a scenic drive to the Samson Rope facility from our Hotel in Seattle. I will get back there some day to get another look.
Thanks for posting the pics.

 

[southsoundtree]

This was my first time getting that close to a glacier.

Sometime we will get on the glacier.

I like to pull people's leg. When we were at Trader Joe's at 830a, the cashier asked if we were doing anything with the day.

"We're going to climb Mt. Rainier," I said. Her eyes popped with a little surprise until I told her I was just kidding, only hiking up near there. She thought maybe we were getting a late start.