Ont Thursday of our reunion week the majority of our family chose to go to a water park for the day. John and I, as well as my brother Wayne, opted for a visit to Mount Rainer. Our son Daniel and his wife had already been there, and had enjoyed a few of its trails. Their excitement about what they had seen whetted our appetite to also visit the mountain. Unfortunately the trip there involved a several hours drive, and our day was cut a bit short by a flat tire which needed repairing. The other sad news was that the mountain was a bit covered by a cloud when we arrived there.
At the visitor's center we looked over the variety of trails which we could take around or up the mountain, all of which were called "Paradise Trails". Given our time constraint, we chose to take the Myrtle Falls trail. That was a wonderful choice! It included wildflower meadows, and many of the large patches of flowers had small signs identifying them.
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| Bear grass lily |
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| Avalanche Lily |
Wayne walked as far as Myrtle Falls with us, and as the path was getting steeper, chose to sit and rest while John and I continued on. Notice that we had jackets on in the picture below. How that sounds wonderful during the hot days we are now experiencing in St.Louis!
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| Myrtle Falls |
Along our trail we also passed by large fields of white and pink heather.
On the trail information at the visitor's center we were informed that we would "have close encounters with glaciers and snowfields and be able to enter the world of the upper mountain". We did not climb up that far, but still enjoyed some beautiful vistas of snow patches on the mountain.
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