On the Monday following the AMS Users Group Power Users Seminar (another pitch for AMSUG), Jack and Marge Grieves and Mary and I met at the ferry landing in Seattle and then joined a Gray Lines tour to Mt. Rainier.
The weather was very pleasant, sunny and not too warm, when we left and stayed good most of the day. The bus trip to Mt. Rainier took longer than I expected, after all, you can see the mountain from the Seattle area!
At Paradise lodge, we stopped for lunch at the lodge (good food and great Mac & Jack's beer. We did experience the first snow of the year for us and the wind was strong and very cold - wind chill had to be close to zero or below some of the times.
Among the sites we saw were some huge first growth forest trees and streams that had experienced some fairly violent floods We also saw, in the distance, at least one glacier (my memory plays tricks on me, thought we saw a bunch of them but unless you are closer it is hard to tell a glacier from a snow covered valley WAY up there.
We did get some grat views of the peak but it was obvious that the peak was not the place to be - snow was blowing off the peak under very strong winds.
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