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A trip to Mt. Rainier in Washington state took us all the way down the Oregon and California coasts as well as a couple of nature reserves. These are not in chronological order. In fact, they're not in any particular order. Keeps folks like me with short attention spans enthralled.
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Ethan Winning > Skyline Trail, the Trail with no end

It can be an extremely long loop unless you're under 40 and can just power through. We covered 7.6 miles on a day that we thought we'd take it easy and stop at Myrtle Falls and come back. It's easy to forget your age when you spot waterfalls, glaciers, birds, wildflowers, and a few neat beetles! I should do a commercial for the boots I was wearing: amazingly comfortable even on such a trek.
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Ethan Winning > Falls at Skyline Trail
Ethan Winning > A Stream and Meadow on Alta Vista Trail
Ethan Winning > Sluiskin Falls
Ethan Winning > Rainier and Asters from Dead Horse Trail

Though the sky was crystal clear, we did have a day or two with smoke, and one day with dust clouds from rock fall (which makes thunderous sounds like a glacier calving).
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Ethan Winning > Lakes Trail

The scene that everyone takes a picture of is Reflection Lake. However, because this time we couldn't drive there, my wife chose what turned out to be a 6 mile uphill trek which was uphill and tested our metal. In one particular moraine, I spotted my first Pika, but didn't get a shot of him.
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Ethan Winning > Painter's Lake at Crest of Lakes Trail
Ethan Winning > Louise Lake From Crest of Trail

That's straight down over the foreground rock.
Ethan Winning > Rainier Reflecting in Louise Lake
Skyline Trail
Ethan Winning > Skyline Trail
Skyline Trail
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