First Hike of the Summer

Once we had our minds made up Tamara quickly packed us a lunch and we were out the door. First hike of the summer Mt. Rainier. Parking was a little hard because eveyone else had chosen to go to the mountain, too. Because of the construction at Paradise everyone parks at Longmire and waits for the shuttle bus to take them to the top. They run about every 1/2 hr.
We will wait til we can drive all the way up.

James Longmire's son 1888 homestead is on the trail . There is also several hot mineral springs bubbling up. They use to sale the water to tourists as a source of healing power.

The Trail of the Shadow is very cool and a comfortable walk.

Dad and son stretched their legs a bit after lunch walking around the Longmire Lodge. V was very social with all the people waving and jabbering with them all.

Our second hike was cut short. We took the Kautz Creek trail only to find that it was boring and too hot. And the bugs were very hungary. So we called it quits and headed for home. On the way out of the Mt. Rainier Park you should have seen the line of cars just on their way in.

We finished the night by going out to dinner.

A little too close for comfort

We hope everyone had a great 4th of July. We have already reserved our space at Dick's for next year.

This is our new tent we pitched in the backyard along with the Flannery's tent and outhouse, and the DeMark's rv trailer. We slept very comfortbly.

Everyone brought a dish and the eating was delicous. I forgot how sweet white corn is. Yummy. The burgers and Mariner hotdogs were great. I could continue to tell you how great everything was but then you would know exactly how much I ate.

Emma and Van got along real good. She is a cutie. She had a good time feeding the dogs chips.

This shot came from standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.....with a hit to the elbow and hip, I took off running and so did everyone else. Bill knelt over Patty because she was on the ground and couldn't get up. Everyone else grabbed a child and took off running. I think next time we will observe things from afar. Out of the danger zone...... Before this we had watched Tony and Travis light off some spectacular fireworks that night but things got very quiet after this.

Fourth of July Weekend

Our weekend started out at Carney Lake with Uncle Bob's family and in-laws