Ranger Falls and Green Lake

Drove out to the Carbon River entrance of Mt Rainier NP to hike up to Ranger Falls and Green Lake. This is a 9.6 mile round trip hike with 1,150 ft of gain. We did not need snowshoes nor micro spikes today.

The first three miles are along the closed Carbon River Road in an old growth forest..
There was a light dusting of snow along portions of the road walk.

 It was fun to watch the rain drops plop into puddles.

 Lots of water in Falls Creek

 View of Carbon River shortly before the trailhead up to Rangers Falls and Green Lake.

 From this trailhead it is 1 mile to Ranger Falls and an additional 0.8 miles to Green Lake. There was water running down the trail today.

 One one section of this trail there was one downed tree and lots of branches.

 More running water on the trail

Up ahead is the short side trail to Ranger Falls

 Ranger Falls

















View of Ranger Falls from the railing

















Log bridge over Ranger Creek

view of Ranger Creek just before the log bridge

Green Lake today

 some reflections in Ranger Creek near Green Lake

We started to see some blue sky as we were hiking back down the Carbon River Road