Early morning hike up to old helicopter hill landing pad to scout out meteor viewing prospects. This is looking across to what we call "The Top of the World",…
There's "The Top of the World" again, along with today's peak Mutton Mountain. We lunched on the highest spot on the right. Below is the road leading to our…
Nothing quite like a little morning reading in Mommy's lap in front of the campfire.
Heading up the Rainier View trail on an absolutely perfect day.
The pack mule.
"The Top of the World" is just barely visible in the center of this picture. At this point we've climbed through the woods and are now traversing the hill.
Gavin and Zilly have reached the ridge.
And now so has Zoe. The view of Mt. Rainier is far more impressive in person. I believe the haze is caused by smoke from massive forest fires burning in Asia.
Gavin violating one of our few trail rules - No throwing rocks down the hill. Luckily there's 0% chance of anybody being down there.
Zoe the mountain goat.
Heading up Mutton Mountain off trail. You can see the peekabo view of our trail below. "The Top of the World" is on the far left and the rocks Zoe stood atop…
Ms. Vibram Five Fingers isn't enjoying the rocks too much.
How's this for a lunch spot? Just don't look down.
Here's Gavin enjoying a precarious lunch at the top of a rock fall chute. Luckily nobody slipped since it'd have been hell trying to pull somebody back up from…
Looking back towards our trail and "The Top of the World".
Looking up to the peak of Mutton Mountain. We scrambled along the ridge on the right side.
Zoe was the first brave kid to join her Daddy atop Mutton Mountain. Here's the view looking down towards another off-trail spot I think we'll scout out next…
Our campsite nature chefs. Gavin appears to have been possessed in this picture.
Lovely!
