Ted and I heard from weather reports, that it was going to be nice and sunny up at Mt. Rainier. So off we went! When we parked up at Paradise, the weather was not too great. It was cloudy and almost whiteout conditions. I brought wands to place every 50 to 100 feet, so that if we got into whiteout conditions, we can find out way out by following the wands.
After putting on our snowshoes we started up the hill. On the way up, we met a nice couple from Puyallup who were just snowshoeing around Paradise.
We finally got to the base of the steep hill going up to Panorama Point. There was another guy hiking up there, but was really messing up the trail because he was post holing (no snowshoes, but sinking into the snow with his boots). He finally realized he was messing the trail and turned back, which we were glad he did.
We finally made it up to Panorama Point and it was very windy, cold and whiteout conditions. We could hardly see very far in front of us. We had intended to snowshoe to Pebble Creek, but weather too awful, so, after having a quick lunch at Panorama, we decided to turn back and go down the steep hill. It would be too dangerous to continue on. No views.
As we were going down, the views were amazing as the sun finally came out, but the mountain was still hidden behind the clouds. We still had a great time!
Ted snowshoeing up the trail.
Only good view of the mountain that day.
Steep hill going up to Panorama Point. There were three people up there.
They look like little dots!
Panorama Point, whiteout conditions, could not see Paradise below.
Wind, blowing Ted's hats!
Burrr Cold!
Brief view of Paradise below.
View of the Tatoosh as we got closer to Paradise while coming down from
Panorama Point.
Pyramid Peak, center of picture.
We climbed that on a 4th of July weekend years ago.
Big smile from Ted. Prably happy we are getting off the mountain! ha!
Yes, getting warmer now.
Beautiful views!
Ted and the big snow ball! Push, push!
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