We went on a little adventure today. Left Yakima around 2:00 PM, warm and sunny, in the 70s. We were both dressed in shorts, I had on flip flops, but we do always carry tennis shoes and hiking shoes and jackets and rain jackets. With that said, it was about 50 miles to Mount Rainier and we drove a beautiful scenic highway. The landscape changed from high desert to lush, green, almost rainforest trees and mountains. Lot’s of water falls. Lots of trees. Lots and lots and lots of trees. And the clouds started rolling in and the fog and the temp. dropped to the low 40’s. It was pretty, but we couldn’t even see the mountain because of the cloud coverage. There was still a lot of snow on the sides of the road at 5,000 feet. Although we couldn’t see Rainier, we did see some of the other mountains/volcanoes and they had lots of snow at the top. We are going back in a few weeks to camp (from the other side) so hopefully we will have a sunny day. Didn’t take many pictures because there was nothing to see except trees and clouds (and more trees). It did smell really, really good. We saw a Mama black tailed deer with two very new babies. They were crossing the road – the Mama and one baby on one side of the road and the other baby just stopped in the middle and looked at us, then ran/slid across the road to Mama.
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