Day 11 and 12 Elevation Vacation……🦃❤️🥾🏔️
I am more tired today, than any day hiking up high.
Yesterday was move to another time zone and laundry day. I had a few extra hours so I drove a long road to the Blue Lakes Trailhead to see Mount Sneffels from the back side. I flew from Grand Junction to Denver to Seattle, my wife from Richmond to Denver to Seattle. Lights out at 1:30AM PDT.
Today was a quick visit to the Space Needle then drive to Ashford, WA, just outside of Mount Rainer NP.
Time for dinner🙂
Mount Rainer exploration tomorrow!
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1mo
Space needle's one of those thing I've known about since I was a kid, Kinda represented the Jetson's view of the future which I - and probably the rest of America - was into as a six year old kid at the time. Wish I had gone to the Women's bball playoff a few years back and would loved to have checked that off.
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1mo
You get a pretty good view from up there.
Mt. Rainer is pretty neat. I've driven up to the ranger station a couple times. (Only hiked up the glacier a little way.)
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1mo
Almost as good as on a mountain top😎
Top level: glass walls and no ceiling
Middle level: bathrooms
Bottom level: glass floors and the floor rotates 1 rev in 20 minutes or so. There is a bar on this floor and you can watch Seattle go by while drinking a $17 beer 😳
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1mo
I drove on it to get a lot of good pics of that whole ridge.
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