Mt. Rainier Collected | 15 Pictures
This summer I drove through the Pacific Northwest again. It’s a beautiful area and I’m happy to have visited new places this time around. On my way to the coast I stopped at Mt. Rainier National Park for a day to see the sights and do some hiking up the mountain. This park is located in southwest Washington state.
It was a fairly impromptu decision but the time was available and I got ambitious. There is still a lot of the mountain that I didn’t see, so a future trip would allow me the opportunity to spend more time for exploration. Curious to hear about any sections or features that readers might recommend for a future trip. Feel free to leave a comment below - or better yet a picture of your own.
Approaching Mt. Rainier
I only spent an afternoon here and was able to get a handful of pictures I really enjoy.
Looking forward to sharing them with you.
Grove of the Patriachs
On the way deeper into Mt. Rainier National Park, I stopped into a grove with large older trees.
There are still places through out the Pacific Northwest where old growth trees are still growing.
It can be hard to gauge the size of them without something to compare with in the photo.
Closer to Rainier
Almost there….
Onto Mt. Rainier
🏔 🚶
Marmot on the Mountain
Onto the hill
By Sunset
You won’t come down the mountain with anything if you aren’t willing to climb it first
Goodnight Paradise
Last pic from Mt. Rainier - hope you enjoyed them
I highly recommend visiting this park. It is sort of remote in the sense that there aren’t any large communities in the near vicinity but that’s fairly typical if you are a frequent visitor of National Parks. It’s probably not that far of a drive from the greater Seattle metropolitan area, if you find yourself there at some point. There isn’t a significant highway that goes through the area, though it is probably more accessible than Olympic or Cascades.
Wonderful pictures of Mt.Rainier @mdf-365! The very first one is like looking at the Grand Canyon it's so beautiful and surreal that part of it doesn't look real. Great write up with your pictures too.
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Glorious!
That second photo somehow talks about scale without anything for easy scaling in it. I just feel those are huge. The textures, I think, speak Giant.
These pictures make me miss the mountains..and there are less than 24 hours since I returned from them, lol
That's funny - at least you know they'll still be there when you get a chance to good back
I’ve met some of these huge trees in New Zealand too, unbelievable when you’re standing next to them! Are these trees also redwoods? Great views at that top from Mt. Rainier.
No these aren't redwoods - do you have a link to anything showing the trees you're talking about from New Zealand?
Yes I have! :D
Here is the post about that specific part of my NZ posts
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So.. the path to the mountain already prepared by the park's management? That's really cool.. and you can go and back in one day? Really amazing pictures and all those trees looks very happy @mdf-365
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Whoaaaa... @mdf-365 😉 thanks for taking walking with you through the park.. I love Huge Trees and you captured all of it very well😍 is it really a marmot? Not a prairie dog?
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Yep, I promise - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-bellied_marmot
...but I did get a few prairie dog pics when I was in Badlands National Park this summer too, if you want to roll back on my timeline to see them
Yellow-bellied marmot
The yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris), also known as the rock chuck, is a large, stout-bodied ground squirrel in the marmot genus. It is one of fourteen species of marmots, and is native to mountainous regions of southwestern Canada and western United States, including the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Mount Rainier in the state of Washington, typically living above 6,500 feet (2,000 m). The fur is mainly brown, with a dark bushy tail, yellow chest and white patch between the eyes, and they weigh up to approximately 5 kg (11 lb). They live in burrows in colonies of up to twenty individuals with a single dominant male.