Reflection Lakes Snowshoe

 The weather forecast was for cloudy and snowing, so we opted to snowshoe to Reflection Lakes from the Narada Falls parking area in Mt Rainier National Park. A 3+ mile round trip with about 300 ft of gain.
There were blue skies and a view of Mt Rainier while we were waiting for the gate to open at Longmire.

 View of the Paradise River as we crossed the bridge to the trailhead.

 The trail markers have not yet been set up, but we could see where previous snowshoers had gone before the last snowfall.

 For awhile, the trail follows along the Paradise River.

a winter wonderland

As the avalanche risk below tree level was low today, we choose to follow the closed Stevens Canyon Road via Inspiration Point to Relection Lakes. The Tatoosh Range was clear.

 There were lots of icicles.

Watched the clouds roll in over the Tatoosh.

 Cloudy at Reflection Lakes

 Mt Rainier was hiding behind the clouds. Occasionally, we could see the top peeking out.

 On the snowshoe back, we had some glimpses of the lower flanks of Mt Rainier.

 We saw some blue sky beyond Eagle Peak.

 Back at the beginning of the trail, we then hiked down to view Narada Falls.

 On the drive out, we stopped to view Upper Christine Falls























and Lower Christine Falls