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Another view of the decimation the volcanic eruption caused to the forest. (photo courtesy of Dave Biddle)
Looking upstream to Mt Rainier.
A sign at the visitors centor at Mt. Rainier
Dave and Glen hiked up the trail a ways and took this picture of Mt. Rainier. They didnt have to go far before the trail became snow covered. We watched about 20 people through the telescopes in the visitors center hiking up to the base camp to try to summit the next day. They start out from base camp around 1am in the morning. Nisqually Glacier can be seen clearly in this photo. Gilbraltar Rock shows to the right of the glacier.
Another picture of Mt Rainier. The stream is colored from the activity of the glaciers grinding up the rocks as it passes over them..
Tom is smiling because he is doing a stupid thing and standing on top of a guard rail with a 50 ft drop behind him. Must of been the altitude.
After two days of visiting Mt St Helens and Mt Rainier, we departed Chehalis around 8am for the short 80 mile hop to Port Angeles on the North side of the Olympic pennisula. There was a low layer of clouds we had to fly under until we could climb out to bright skies and VFR on top.
Over the olympic national park looking west. The overcast in the valley off the left wing hides the ocean and the temperate rain forest we saw later. (photo courtesy of Dave Biddle)
A view of Mt Olympus, the tallest mountain in the range at 7965 feet.
Katie takes a picture of Mt. Olympus.
On the ground at Port Angeles. The wind was blowing hard when we landed but was straight down the runway. It was 10 to 15 + the two days we were there. The locals say it always blows there.
This is the start of the hike up the hurricane ridge trail in the Olympic National Park. There was a lot of visitors there.
Dave takes some pictures along the way looking north west.
This is one of many deer we saw in the park. They are used to people and just ignored everyone that stopped and took pictures of them.
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