We drove up to Mowich Lake at Mt Rainier National Park to hike up to Spray Park and part way up the route to Echo Rock. Overall, we hiked 9.4 miles with 2,340' gain. Love hikes where we see wildflowers blooming at the trailhead!
View of Mt Rainier from the Eagle Cliff Viewpoint
After 2.6 miles and going up some switchbacks, we left the forest and had this lovely view!
field full of heather and Rainier magenta paintbrush
The trail then goes through a short forest section with some peek-a-boo views of Mt Rainier
The trail then enters Spray Park where we soon saw a deer.
zoom
So many wildflowers! Here paintbrush, lupine and avalanche lilies in the distance.
more heather and avalanche lilies
For awhile, the trail was lined with lupine and paintbrush.
Looking back along the trail towards Fay Peak and Knapsack Pass
heather, lupine and Mt Rainier
lots of avalanche lilies and Mt Rainier
paintbrush, avalanche lies and Mother Mountain
meadows full of wildflowers!
About 6,400' on the trail, there is a boot path that goes up towards Echo Rock (on the left) we went up this boot path for about 0.7 miles for our lunch break.
There were lots of wildflowers here also.
Lots of Rainier magenta paintbrush
View of Mt Rainier between Echo Rock and Observation Rock
cinquefoil near our lunch spot
view at our lunch spot
zoom of a tarn to the west
as we were returning to the main trail, we had a good view to the north, we could see Glacier Peak, Mt Stuart and the Enchantment Peaks to the northeast.
loved walking through Spray Park again on our way out
We took a short side trail to view one of the tarns in Spray Park
some of the wildflowers seen along the trail today:
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