Mt. Rainier Sept. 8
The weather continues to dazzle. Bob greeted Harris with coffee at 8 AM and the four of us sat around the campfire as the sun rose into the sky. Four hours later it was time to say good-bye with promises of getting together some time in the future. We decided to hike to Carter Falls, a short mile plus hike. When will we learn that hiking to see the falls, any falls, entails long stretches of up-hill hiking! The cool part of the hike involved crossing the river bed that the storm of Dec ’07 unleashed volumes of water that brought down train loads of boulders down from the mountain heights. It totally wiped out one camping section (Sunny Point) and many bridges. Looking down we felt as if we were in an Indiana Jones adventure film (even though we were only 4 feet above the “raging” river). The only way across the river was on a log that had been sawed in half. It had a skinny rail on one side. Judy got dizzy crossing the river, but felt adventurous! We finally left our campsite around 2 on our way to Maryhill, our next stop. Our gps wanted us to go west instead of east to get to Yakima and it proceeded to tell us to turn around for the next 30 miles as we headed to Paradise and Ohanapacosh to exit the park. We continued to ignore it…It’s a beautiful drive out that way and over White Pass. We did a quick stop in Yakima to check out emails at the library (no wifi, can’t believe it!) We rolled into the Maryhill state camp ground around 9PM.
The weather continues to dazzle. Bob greeted Harris with coffee at 8 AM and the four of us sat around the campfire as the sun rose into the sky. Four hours later it was time to say good-bye with promises of getting together some time in the future. We decided to hike to Carter Falls, a short mile plus hike. When will we learn that hiking to see the falls, any falls, entails long stretches of up-hill hiking! The cool part of the hike involved crossing the river bed that the storm of Dec ’07 unleashed volumes of water that brought down train loads of boulders down from the mountain heights. It totally wiped out one camping section (Sunny Point) and many bridges. Looking down we felt as if we were in an Indiana Jones adventure film (even though we were only 4 feet above the “raging” river). The only way across the river was on a log that had been sawed in half. It had a skinny rail on one side. Judy got dizzy crossing the river, but felt adventurous! We finally left our campsite around 2 on our way to Maryhill, our next stop. Our gps wanted us to go west instead of east to get to Yakima and it proceeded to tell us to turn around for the next 30 miles as we headed to Paradise and Ohanapacosh to exit the park. We continued to ignore it…It’s a beautiful drive out that way and over White Pass. We did a quick stop in Yakima to check out emails at the library (no wifi, can’t believe it!) We rolled into the Maryhill state camp ground around 9PM.
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