Sunday, October 12, 2008
Seattle
Seattle Sunset, the infamous fish (throwing) market, some great street musicians, and Sushi with Andrea and Heuy.
Twin Falls Idaho
After I left Rainier, I headed back up to Seattle to see my sister and brother-in-law, who are moving there soon. They were on the house hunting adventure. I loved Seattle. What a great clean city! I planned to leave Seattle and drive straight back to Driggs in one push. I left Seattle around 3pm, drank three Red Bulls to stay awake and at 4:30am my car broke down on the side of the interstate. Turns out I broke an axel. Thank goodness for AAA! They towed me to Twin Falls Idaho and dropped me off at the car shop. Luckily, the car shop owner was an insomniac and was at the shop with the "Open" sign on when I arrived at 5:30 AM!
I took my bike off the roof of my car and rode into town to find a place to eat breakfast. By the time I returned, my car was fixed and ready to go!
I asked the mechanic what there is to "SEE" around town--and these pictures are of only ONE of the cool things I saw. The other, was the GORGE. This gorge is where folks base jump off a bridge and parachute down to the ground! It was HUGE! Like a mini Grand Canyon! Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of it...
I took my bike off the roof of my car and rode into town to find a place to eat breakfast. By the time I returned, my car was fixed and ready to go!
I asked the mechanic what there is to "SEE" around town--and these pictures are of only ONE of the cool things I saw. The other, was the GORGE. This gorge is where folks base jump off a bridge and parachute down to the ground! It was HUGE! Like a mini Grand Canyon! Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of it...
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Climb to Camp Muir
The last picture in this sequence is of a crevasse that is deep and wide. Scary. Some were flagged, most were not. I took a route that had NO foot prints--which was not wise. I'll post more later. I was not allowed to climb to Rainier's summit because I was traveling alone, and would need a climbing partner--So, I just hiked to the Rainier base camp called Camp Muir. This was a beast of a hike/climb. I loved it.
Driving to Olympic National Park in Washington State
I was amazed by the dirt devil tornado winds that were ALL over the place when I was driving from Spokane to Olympic National Park! They were really neat to watch! I saw at least 20! Since it takes so long to upload pictures, I'm going to post the rest from Olympic NP later. It was misty and foggy most of the trip in the park, so I don't have as many pretty pictures. However, I'm going to skip into my Mt.Rainier National Park visit.... Which was FRIGGIN' AMAZING!
Glacier NP Lodge
The last picture is of a trail blasted into the side of the mountain--called the Highline trail. If you click on the picture to see the full size, you can see 2 hikers, one in a red jacket. Pretty awesome, yet disturbing in the fact they blasted out part of the mountain to place a trail.
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