Elevation Gain: Approximately 3000 ft.
Time: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Weather: Beautiful and amazingly perfect!
Another week has me blogging well after the hike. This is always unfortunate as the memory of the hike fades. A few quick things about this hike that will stay with me. I sent an email to a lot of my colleagues at work whom I know like to snow shoe. Many of them (5 of them to be exact) all said "yes" to joining me on this hike. My friend, the woman who has gone to Dark Canyon with Creighton and me, suggested we go to Rainier. As avid wilderness wanderers in the PNW, I think we all feel a connection to certain places. Rainier is such a place for many of us, and after the terrible tragedy that happened with the murder of Margret Anderson, we wanted to be on the mountain.
We did almost the exact same hike I did almost a year earlier (Week 21). This time went north from Paradise to Panorama Point. Then we climbed a bit higher past. We came back along Mazama Ridge. We then traversed west until we found the trail down to Reflection Lake. We then came up the road into Paradise.
Orchid: The amazing weather and friends.
Onion: Hurt my ankle around 1 pm sledding around. It hurt walking out on...
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