Reflection Lakes & Louise Lake snowshoe on Mt Rainier

We drove up to Mt Rainier National Park today for an easy snowshoe hike to Reflection Lakes and Lake Louise, sticking to the no avalanche field trail (because of the increased avalanche risk today). Our hike was about 7 miles round trip with an overall elevation gain of about 900 ft.
We hiked in a light rain for most of the day, it was still beautiful, even with the limited views. We choose the trailhead at Narada Falls. The hike through the forest followed Paradise River for awhile. It was fun watching the river appear and disappear in the snow.
To avoid the avalanche fields along the Stevens Canyon Road as it passes Inspiration Point, the winter trail goes up and over Inspiration Saddle and then drops down to Reflection Lakes.

Because of the rain and limited views, I forgot to take a picture of one of the Reflection Lakes. If you want to see a photo and a description of a longer loop hike, see this post from last Wednesday.

After reaching Reflection Lakes, we continued on the snow covered Stevens Canyon Road for about 0.75 miles with a gentle descent for this overlook of Louise Lake.

The Stevens Canyon Road was an easy trail.  We returned the same way we traveled out, going over Inspiration Saddle back to Narada Falls.
We had the lakes to ourselves today. We didn't see other snowshoers until we were going back up to Inspiration Saddle.