Wildflower loop at Paradise

We drove up to Paradise at Mt Rainier National Park to do a modified Skyline Loop Trail and enjoy the wildflowers. Overall 5 miles with 1,600 ft of gain. We hiked up Deadhorse CreekTrail to Glacier Vista, continued on the Skyline Trail over the Hight route and came down on the Golden Gate Trail to rejoin the Skyline Trail. View from the beginning of the Deadhorse Creek Trail.

I love the lush meadows along the beginning of the Deadhorse Creek Trail!

peek a boo view of Mt Rainier

Love the abundance of bright red paintbrush!

One of our slowest hikes, because we were continually stopping to soak in the views and take photos.

Looking back along the trail towards the Tatoosh Range.

Better views of Mt Rainier as we continue up the Deadhorse Creek Trail.

lots of heather in bloom

zoom of a marmot looking at the hikers passing by

red paintbrush and pink heather in among the rocks

View of Mt Rainier and the Nisqually Glacier from Glacier Vista

zoom of a large waterfall coming off a glacier

View of Mt Rainier after joining the Skyline Trail on our way up to Panorama Point

pink and white heather growing together

Looking towards the Tatoosh Range as we continue up towards Panorama Point

We saw several marmots along this part of the trail.

View from Panorama Point, Mt Hood was very faint through the haze to the south.

zoom of the Goat Rocks

zoom of Mt Adams

zoom of Mt St Helens

From Panorama Point we continued along the high route, love this wide angle view of Mt Rainier.

Views of the Tatoosh from the high route

lots of monkey flowers growing along the streams

Mt Rainier starting to reemerge into view

Lots of heather along the trail,

paintbrush growing amid the rocks lining the trail,

and lupine, paintbrush and more in the meadow.

As we headed down, we saw some beargrass still in bloom across the meadow.

There were many wildflowers in bloom as we hiked down the Golden Gate Trail.

 

View from Edith Creek back along the Skyline Loop Trail

We saw many butterflies today, I was able to get a photo of one on an aster.

some of the many wildflowers we saw along the trail today: