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Old 09-17-2015, 06:35 PM   #3
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Monday morning we left Seattle and drove to Mt.Rainier. We had two nights’ reservationat the lodge at Paradise and it truly is a paradise. But talk about a change of conditions. We went from sea level in Seattle to~5000-5400’ elevation, went from temps in the mid-70’s to the mid-40’s and frommostly sunshine to socked in. It’sdefinitely fall at Mt. Rainier. Thetrees have changed colors already, most of the lakes are dry, awaiting the newsnow falls, and it is Q-U-I-E-T up there. There were few tourists (thank heaven), very little traffic, and we hadthe hiking to ourselves.
Here’s the lodge we stayed at, the Visitors Center and theRanger station. Sadly, the weekend priorto our arrival a climber died on the mountain and they brought his body out onMonday. We didn’t find any of that outuntil later, but we did see a huge contingent of mountain rescue people when wegot back to the lodge on Monday afternoon.



The building on the right is the one we stayed in. Our room was on the third floor on the cornerthat is at the extreme right side of the building.


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Here are some random shots I took. The colors are muted because there was almostzero sun. We did get one small bit ofblue sky right over part of the mountain and I was able to grab a shot ofit. You’ll just have to use yourimagination. Most of these were takenwhile we hiked a short trail that went through the “Grove of the Patriarchs”,an island that has a lot of HUGE trees that are over 1,000 years old.


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