Tuesday, May 27, 2025
On Wednesday, May 21st we left the Fred Meyer parking lot at 6:20am looking forward to exploring Mount Rainier National Park. The drive out of town into the mountains was beautiful. There were many mountain streams and beautiful trees. The roads became steeper and curvier as we drove. We drove through White Pass at 4,500 feet. Very pretty. The day before, Google said that the shortest way into Mount Rainier was closed. However, when we checked this morning it said that the shortest way was open. How great was that! We thought this was going to save us an hour’s drive. But – it didn’t.
After turning around and driving back out and around for another hour, we finally reached the Visitor’s Center. We of course got our National Park Passport stamped and talked to the ranger about some hikes. We began with a short hike near the visitor’s center to get our first view of the mountain. It was clouded in, but we could see a little of it. Then we hiked the Carter Falls trail. This was a more challenging hour and forty-five-minute hike. The falls were worth the hike. Great payoff.
There were many more hikes available, but it was time for us to be moving on and we headed to Olympic National Park in Port Angeles, Washington (far north). We stopped at Gig Harbor in route to have our Wednesday night Bible Study. Since we were in Washington our normal 7:00pm Bible study was at 5:00pm. This is a real adjustment for us especially when it doesn’t get dark until 9:00pm. After the Bible study, we proceeded to Port Angeles.
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