Park entrance, great gates..
Camp at Mt. Rainier Federal campground, running stream just behind tent - nice site.
Louise and the Miata at an overlook on the way up...
A view of a slide that had taken out the road sometime earlier -
The area to the right in this picture was a glacier, now melted.
Lodge at "Paradise" for those who would prefer a more genteel way to tour....
On the way down, traveling to the West - another example of low rainfall and snow mass, not hard to see this waterway is not flowing the way it used to....
This just knocked me out - the first time I've ever seen a vintage gas pump like this still intact at an actual vintage station!! Yeah, it's chained in place to keep it there, a reminder of how road trips used to be.
Here's a few shots of a vintage Shay log train locomotive, found this one sitting alongside the highway just as we came out on the flats after coming down from Rainier.
This is a drained reservoir south of Tacoma, this used to be flooded. In the background is smoke from a forest fire nearby, a commentary on the drought all through the west. Even though this is the pacific northwest and it is getting some rain, it's a fraction of what it typically gets, and the snowpack is much lower than it usually is.
The view from a farmer's driveway, many, many miles to the west of the mountain. This is what he sees when he strolls to his barn each morning.
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