Mt. Rainier

A couple of weeks ago Adam and I decided to go to Glacier National Park. We had actually tried to go a couple of times, but something always came up. This time there were thunderstorms...so we decided to head over to Washington instead and see what we could find. My mom had a book of hike for Washington. After perusing it we decided on Mt. Rainer.

One of the best parts of the hike was the first little bit. The bridge goes over Christine Falls... and it was beautiful.

A lot of the trail was pretty gnarly. It was wet and slippery too.

Here is Adam by the river.

One of the main attractions was Comet Falls. It was pretty impressive.

It felt like a hurricane down at the bottom. I couldn't believe how windy and cold it was down there.

Here is another view of the falls.

We decided to keep going after the falls to a place called Van Gaard Park (or something like that). It was so foggy. I loved it. The trail was pretty steep. They had to put steps in.

Here it is at the top. I loved it up there. I felt like I was in the Sound of Music or something.

We wanted to make it to the snow. We did it!! You can see Adam in the back jumping for joy!

I had to experience the snow first hand.

One of the trees that had fallen over had these cool purple pine cones on it.

At the top...or at least as far as we went. The trail we up another 1000 in elevation we found out.

A giant slug we found on the way back.

After our hike, the weather finally started clearing up. We saw this rainbow...but we were still sad that we han't seen the top of Mt. Rainier.

As the sun was setting...and we were almost out of the park we saw some people taking pictures. We turned around just in time to catch this view of Mt. Rainier. It was beautiful. I'm glad we got to see it!