Beautiful bluebird day, so we headed up to Paradise at Mt Rainier to go snowshoeing. The snow was so well consolidated, we never donned our snowshoes, but hiked with microspikes the entire trip. Our overall hike today was about 4.75 miles with 1,400 ft overall gain.
From Paradise we followed the closed road over to 4th Crossing to go up to Mazama Ridge. Enjoyed the interesting textures in the snow today.
Near the top of Mazama Ridge, the trees were covered in frost.
Clear views of the Tatoosh Range as we reached the top of Mazama Ridge.
View of Stevens Canyon to the east. Loved the patterns in the snow.
Someone built an igloo and only partially dismantled it.
From Mazama Ridge, we headed part ways up the Paradise Glacier Trail. Pano view of Mt Rainier here.
To the south, we could see the Goat Rocks, Mt Adams, Mt Hood and Mt St Helens behind the Tatoosh Range.
Heading back down to Mazama Ridge, view of the Paradise River coming down from the Paradise Glacier on Mt Rainier.
The snow level is about 10 ft, it was low enough that I could see the Paradise River heading down toward Sluiskin Falls.
On our way down Mazama Ridge, we found a sturdy snow bridge crossing the Paradise River. From the other side of the Paradise River we headed back uphill about 0.2 miles and 300 ft to view Sluiskin Falls.
Sluiskin Falls
Our tracks up to Sluiskin Falls, we now headed back down and over to Paradise across the valley.
0.25 miles from the Paradise Inn, is a spur trail overlooking Myrtle Falls and Mt Rainier.
We decided to cross the snow covered bridge over Edith Creek.
The snow covered bridge in front of Mt Rainier
View of Mt Rainier from the other side of Edith Creek.
Clear views of the Tatoosh Range as we reached the top of Mazama Ridge.
To the south, we could see the Goat Rocks, Mt Adams, Mt Hood and Mt St Helens behind the Tatoosh Range.
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