Mount Rainier National Park (Happy Birthday Grandpa)

FOGGY morning in Mount Rainier National Park. We spent the morning driving ever so slowly through the park, unable to see 10 feet in front of ourselves and thought we would just head home today. We had lunch and decided to go on the "Trail of the Shadows" walk through an old growth forest, some meadows, and natural springs. Aparently Longmire had found these springs and turned into "Medicine Springs". Now there are signs everywhere -"Do not drink water. Could make you very sick!".

Well, once we got in the forest, we knew we couldn't leave today. It is awesome there. It smells so good, too. So, we decided to camp overnight and hoped that there would be Some clearing.

As the afternoon progressed we started to see our surroundings a bit more, though things were still in a thick fog. We debated on where to camp and ended up going to White River CG, hoping for the clouds to burn away (we even created on our little sun cheer, telling it to burn off those clouds :) ). Well, it worked, because by the time we got to sunrise point, 5:30 PM!,we could see the mountain!!! Hooray! It is awesome. It is HUGE. It is white and gray, just like the kitty we named after it. :) We went for a short walk and got some pics. (It was super cold!!)

Happy, we went to get a campsite and spent the night in the FREEZING 4000 foot high campground. We did have a nice fire, however, and I got to use my Gila marshmallow stick one last time. We tried not to think too much of the fact this would be our last night of our trip.