Katie had a youth activity on Saturday at Rainier. I agreed to drive up and then went for a snowshoe trip while she was sledding. It was an incredible day up there. You get days like this 2-3 times a year so I was tickled to be up there.
Here is Katie at the top of the sledding hill.
I went on the most crowded trail because I was by myself. There were hundreds of skiers and snowshoers going up and down the mountain so I had lots of company. I asked another walker to take a picture of me with Rainier in the background.
Here you can see Mt Saint Helens and Mt Adams. This is the first time I have seen this view from Rainier. You have to get up above the treeline to see this.
An Avalanche. This happened about 10 minutes before I walked up. The wind direction had changed this day and the ridges had loaded up with blown snow. I saw 3 avalanches this day. You normally don’t see then because you normally can’t see very far at Rainier! After I got above the tree line it was blowing like Idaho Falls in the winter.
It was like this all day long. Not a cloud in the sky and lots of sun. You can see to the left how the snow had piled up from the wind.
2 comments:
Beautiful! I'm glad you got to Snowshoe on a day like that!
Hard to tell who had more fun, you or Katie. The scenery is incredible! The photographer did a good job too.
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