August 9-10, 2017: Chinook Pass & Paradise (Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington)

The first day, I hiked from Chinook Pass up to Chinook Peak, then did the loop around Naches Peak and Tipsoo Lake; both of those hikes straddle the border between Mt. Rainier National Park and Wenatchee National Forest. The second day, I wandered around the meadows at Paradise on the south side of Rainier. From Pebble Creek (7200'), I started hiking up toward Camp Muir (10,100')... but then I decided it'd basically just be a long boring slog up a snowfield, so I turned around at about 8,100'.

August 9: Chinook Peak & Naches Peak Loop

view from Chinook Pass
rainiera
American saw-wort
bowl south of Chinook Peak
hairy arnica
Cascade asters
alpine buckwheat
meadows below Chinook Peak
Mt. Rainier & asters
Sourdough Gap & Sheep Lake
Crystal Lake & Crystal Mountain
grouse whortleberries
Parry's arnica
paintrbush & asters
paintbrush & asters
view from a cave
mitrewort seeds
Sheep Lake
cotton-grass & Chinook Peak
cotton-grass
wildflowers
American River Valley
Naches Peak
wildflowers
Deadwood Peak
magenta paintbrush & arnica
white mountain heather
wildflowers
alpine mitrewort seeds
white-flowered willow-herb
brook saxifrage
Sitka mist-maidens
broad-leaf spring beauty
leather-leaf saxifrage
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
magenta paintbrush
Cascade timberline grasshoppers
wildflowers
lupines
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
pond
broad-leaf arnica
white rhododendron
thunderstorms
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
pond & Naches Peak
wildflowers & thunderstorms
alpine lake agoseris seeds
subalpine fleabane
Naches Peak
wildflowers
wildflowers & Yakima Peak
western pasqueflower seed-heads
wildflowers
subalpine spirea

August 10: Paradise

wildflowers
wildflowers
western mountain aster, budding
Mt. Rainier & wildflower meadows
Cusick's speedwell
Mt. Rainier & Nisqually Glacier
explorer's gentian
magenta paintbrush
magenta paintbrush
wildflowers
wildflowers
golden fleabane & dwarf lupine
Muir Snowfield
golden fleabane
elegant Jacob's ladder
creeping sibbaldia
alpine meadow
yellow mountain heather
short-fruit smelowskia
subalpine fleabane & alpine speedwell
bird's-beak lousewort
pink mountain heather & partridgefoot
alpine meadow
tundra aster
alpine meadow & the Tatoosh Range
alpine springs
Tolmie's saxifrage
Wilson Glacier Falls
pussy-paws
elegant Jacob's ladder
creeping sibbaldia, going to seed
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
bottom of Paradise Glacier
subalpine springs & widlflowers
wildflowers & the Tatoosh Range
California Jacob's ladder
small-flowered penstemon
fan-leaf cinquefoil
western pasqueflower
coiled-beak lousewort
Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
wildflowers
hoary marmot
Mt. Rainier & Edith Creek
Myrtle Falls
Narada Falls

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