Emmons Glacier Overlook

 In the evening, we hiked out to the Emmons Glacier Overlook from the Sunrise parking lot hoping Mt Rainier would emerge from behind the clouds.
This is a 3 mile round trip hike with about 400 ft of overall elevation gain.








We saw some wildflowers in bloom, including these paintbrush.

















When we reached the overlook, we could see the turquoise lake down in Glacier Basin and the lower parts of the glaciers on Mt Rainier.

 We stayed at the overlook for about 35 minutes, when the clouds began to move.

 We were happy to see the top of Mt Rainier

 The clouds parted enough for this fabulous view.

 On our way back, we took the side trail to Shadow Lake. We were going to take the trail to the left and go around the lake, when we spotted a fox down on the trail.











As we took the trail around to the right, we watched the fox hunting.

My friend got this photo from the zoom of his camera (I took a phone photo off the screen on the back of this camera)

On the far side of the lake, we saw several deer.

 Beautiful view of Mt Rainier as the trail neared the parking area at Sunrise.