Monday, June 30, 2008

Marmots on the Mountain

June 30th. My neice, Christina's, 16th birthday. Happy birthday, crazy lady.

We set out at 12:30 in the afternoon for Mount Rainier. From the windows in our 5th floor apartment, the mountain looked clear and calm.

Our intended route to the national park entrance was the 705 to highway 7 south, a fairly direct path to the southern corridor leading straight to the Nisqually entrance to Washington's largest peak. We arrived at the park entrance after about 1 hour of driving at a modest clip along what seemed to be endless miles of car dealerships and taco huts.

The trip was punctuated by Mabel getting car sick, marmots whistling to the other nearby marmots signaling danger was afoot, and spotting some of the prettiest and surreal vistas of Mount Rainier.

Take a look at the slide show for the rest of the pictures.



1 comment:

pmk hater said...

Looks good, what's the climbing like out in your neck of the woods?

June has been nothing but thunderstorms, does not matter much as I hurt my shoulder in mtb. crash.

Nothing new for the pmk, will post soon. Have fun!