August 6, 2013: Paradise & Pinnacle Peak (Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington)

Here's a map. I also posted two full trip reports (with fewer photos, but more words) on OregonHikers.org: Paradise, Pinnacle Peak.

Paradise, Mazama Ridge, & Skyline Trail

Paradise Inn
pink mountain heather
bracted lousewort
yellow brain-shaped fungus
leather-leaf saxifrage seeds
tall mountain shooting-star
Paradise River
lupine & heather
five-leaf bramble
fan-leaf cinquefoil
dew-covered lupines & cinquefoil
wildflowers
heather & cinquefoil
Louise Lake & the Tatoosh Range
south shore of Lake Louise
subalpine spirea
heather and a seasonal pond
magenta paintbrush
bird's-beak lousewort
Stevens Canyon
Mt. Rainier & wildflowers
wildflower fields
agoseris
wildflower fields
wildflower fields
Mt. Rainier & wildflowers
trail through wildflowers
Mt. Rainier & a rocky meadow
sedge
Tatoosh Range & wildflowers
snowfield & wildflowers
avalanche lilies
heather meadow
heather & lupines
spreading phlox
subalpine spirea
patches of heather on the hillside
Mt. Rainier & wildflowers
Cusick's speedwell
cliffs & wildflowers
corn lily flowers
Arctic sweet coltsfoot
white marsh-marigolds
wildflowers
cinquefoil
California jacob's-ladder
partridgefoot
tundra asters
small-flowered penstemon
Lewis's monkeyflower
Cowlitz Rocks
alpine wildflowers
coltsfoot seeds & Lewis's monkeyflower
Arctic sweet coltsfoot seeds
leather-leaf saxifrage seeds
leather-leaf saxifrage seeds
wildflowers
Tolmie's saxifrage
trail across the snow
lupines & paintbrush
Paradise & the Tatoosh Range
Mt. Rainier
waterfall above Nisqually Glacier
dwarf lupine
crags above the trail
thread-leaf sandwort
golden fleabane
gray-crowned rosy finch & dwarf lupine
elegant Jacob's ladder
yellow mountain heather
golden-mantled ground squirrel, eating lupines
Mt. Rainier & heather
pink mountain heather
bird's-beak lousewort
white penstemon
subalpine daisy/fleabane
snowfield & cinquefoil (and a pasqueflower)
Mt. Rainier & paintbrush
wildflowers & Tatoosh peaks
wildflower meadow
heather meadow
lousewort-filled meadow
Sluiskin Falls

Pinnacle Peak, Tatoosh Range

elephant's-head lousewort
Sitka valerian
Mt. Rainier
Pinnacle Peak
Unicorn Peak
talus and trail below
Plummer Peak
Mt. Adams & Butter Creek Valley
harebell
view back down toward the saddle
cliffs & Unicorn Peak
time to leave the trekking poles behind
spotted saxifrage
stonecrop & juniper
USGS benchmark & Mt. Rainier
Pinnacle Glacier
western Tatoosh Range
painted lady butterfly
Cowlitz Chimneys
leaves of spotted saxifrage
Paradise
Foss Peak & Unicorn Peak
Tatoosh Peak & Goat Rocks
lichen
Plummer Peak, framed by conifers
the scramble route back down
steep cliffs & Unicorn Peak
juniper berries
alpine buckwheat
Pinnacle Peak's summit
thread-leaf sandwort
scarlet paintbrush
Mt. Rainier in late evening
Davidson's penstemon
wildflowers
hemlock trees on a creeping slope
wildflowers near sunset
The Castle
Cascade azalea (white rhododendron)
subalpine spirea
Mt. Rainier
Unicorn Peak

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