Picture of Mount Rainier
Caption: Roadtrip to MT RAINIER
Caption: Vancouver-based travel duo
Local Wanderer booked a gig
with Land Rover USA and kindly asked us to join them on a Mt Rainier road trip. We said helllll yeah. Mt Rainier is the best.
Picture of Washington
Washington
Caption: The pearl of Puget Sound,
Mt Rainier is one of the oldest National Parks in the country and by all accounts the best. Towering over the surrounding coastal mountains, its the third most prominent peak in the US, covered in glaciers, and surrounded by miles and miles of wet dark intractable wilderness.
It was just our thing.
Picture of Washington
Picture of Washington
Picture of Washington
Cougar Rock Campground
Caption: Like many good trips we were already hours behind schedule before we even left. We stopped for burgers in Seattle, picked up the Range Rover, and made our slow meandering way to the gleaming white mountain.
It was well past nightfall when we finally got into the park and set up camp at Cougar Creek. We ate some marshmallows, hung out for a bit, then crammed 4 people into our two man tent and drifted off into a cozy snuggly sleep.
Picture of Cougar Rock Campground
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
Caption: The clouds moved in overnight, bringing drizzle, bringing rain. We were up at the crack of dawn hoping to photograph a double sunrise at Reflection Lakes, but the morning and mountain were gone, obliterated by a roiling blankgrey screen of low lying clouds. And so it would be for the remainder of the trip.
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
Caption: But Rainier is gorgeous in all weather, not least in its natural state of dark drizzle and gloomy grey. To be honest I'm not sure we could have asked for better conditions—it was magical, mysterious, quenching. It felt like an authentic and essential Pacific Northwest experience. We were happy just to be there. Provided the volcano didn't blow.
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
Caption: The park is huge, with
tons of trails and tiny pockets
to explore. One could spend
weeks trying to see everything.
With only a couple days we
barely scratched the surface.
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Picture of Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
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