{"id":404,"date":"2012-08-21T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=404"},"modified":"2016-08-28T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T17:44:12","slug":"august-21-hiking-in-mount-rainier-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/21\/august-21-hiking-in-mount-rainier-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"August 21: Hiking in Mount Rainier National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mile 4066 – Mount Rainier National Park<\/strong> (local miles only).<\/p>\n

We went hiking for the day, starting at “Paradise”, one of the visitor centers in the Park.\u00a0 The weather was not completely perfect, but good enough.\u00a0 We hiked up along the Nisqually Glacier to a point called Glacier Vista.\u00a0\u00a0It was sunny,\u00a0but clouds loomed above us.\u00a0 Mount Rainier’s peak peeked in and out of the clouds, but mostly in.\u00a0 We aimed for a place called Panorama Point, which appeared to be in the clouds.\u00a0 P.J decided to turn around, but I decided to head on.\u00a0 To my pleasant surprise, Panaroma Point was around the other side of the mountain and had much better weather.\u00a0 Beautiful views in all directions.<\/p>\n

I proceeded to return via the other side, which led over a substantial snowfield.\u00a0 At one point, there was a fairly steep drop in the snow path, which was very slippery, even with good hiking boots.\u00a0 There was a family in front of me, and the adults— trying to preserve their parental dignity— were spastically trying to stay upright while slowly stepping down.\u00a0 One lost her footing and rolled upside down.\u00a0 One of their kids, however, got on his rear and “body-toboganned” down the slope.\u00a0 That seemed like a much better solution to me, so I did the same thing.\u00a0 I have not had so\u00a0much fun since I was a teenager.\u00a0 I went down on my blue-jeans. My ass was totally wet, but I was easily down in no time.<\/p>\n

~ Posted by Arjan.<\/p>\n

After I left Arjan, I had the great pleasure of running into our host, Sandy Altman, from the Stone Creek Lodge<\/a>, where we were staying, who was hiking with her grandson. We hiked down together, and I received a complete education in the sub-alpine flowers blooming all over the mountainside. Altogether, I think we counted 23 different varieties.<\/p>\n

~ Posted by P.J.<\/p>\n

Vintage Postcard Project:<\/strong> August 21: Mount Rainier National Park<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mile 4066 – Mount Rainier National Park (local miles only). We went hiking for the day, starting at “Paradise”, one of the visitor centers in the Park.\u00a0 The weather was not completely perfect, but good enough.\u00a0 We hiked up along the Nisqually Glacier to a point called Glacier Vista.\u00a0\u00a0It was sunny,\u00a0but clouds loomed above us.\u00a0 … Continue reading “August 21: Hiking in Mount Rainier National Park”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}