Me, the wife and daughter took off this morning to climb up one of the volcanic spurs of Mt Rainier. We started out at Sunrise elev 6400 feet. The weather was not perfect but there was no rain. We made it up to the second spurr at an elevation of 7600 feet.
You can almost see the trail. Little Tahoma, a cinder cone next to Mt Rainier (big Tahoma).
Emmons glacier, the largest one on Mt Rainier.
Triple waterfall comming off the glacier. It drops at least 500 feet.
We were very lucky to see some mountain goats. There were about twenty of them spread out.
Whistling marmot chowing down some grub.
Jessica with a snowball.
Jessica wanted to touch a cloud. On our decent we came down on a sharp ridge that had a cloud blowing up and over it. I told her to run down and hold her hands up and touch the cloud.
Yours truly looking like he was rode hard and put away wet.
We wanted to get up to the third spurr at over 8000 feet but the clouds were moving in fast. The wind was also blowing around 20 MPH and was pretty cold. Whiteouts are very dangerous because you can't even see the trail or your feet. They can drop the temp by twenty degrees in just a couple minutes. We had a great time and saw spectacular scenery. It has been several years since I have seeen mountain goats so this was a rare pleasure for us.
I shot some video of the cloud mist rolling in and some panoramics.
