Old Snowy
Journal entry September 2010, Rainier National Park, Washington State USA.
Off we go, starting out on a dirt road at something close to 200 miles per hour at some ungodly hour of the morning. Really we slept in and had a great breakfast first. Speeds were probably legal but try to capture that with a 4 megapixel camera. It's just not as much fun and the little pictures I snap from a moving vehicle always look like I'm in a rocket reentering the atmosphere anyway so why not roll with it?
We start out on an overcast day heading up a forest track:
Crossing the mighty improved bridge on the trail freeway:
The view as we gain some altitude:
Talking over the world's issues on the trail at first break:
Coming up to the Snowgrass Trail intersection amid the scrub pines:
Heading up to the first ridge and larger meadows:
We stop at another intersection and talk about the map for a bit:
The weather clears enough for us to see the trail ahead:
Somewhere up ahead in that mist is Old Snowy:
