Camped out at Bird Lake in the Yakama Nation this summer. Here are some images from hiking the Crooked Creek Trail. Wonderful hike with wildflowers, waterfalls, and mountain views. Unfortunately it was decimated by forest fires a few weeks after we left.
I shot with a Canon t3i. No images have been edited.
Nice person in Portland, Oregon, and beyond.
After lunch we entered the Mount Rainier National Park and took the Trail of the Shadows hike across the road from the Longmire National Park Inn. It's a short hike, but with lots of quick changes of scenery to make it interesting to all ages. As you leave the inn, you get breathtaking views of Rainier and then you travel through swampy meadows and into the forest whose giant fir trees give the trail its name. There are also several springs along the trail, including the vibrantly colored and slightly poisonous Iron Mike spring, and even a restored homestead cabin from the 19th century.
One of the prettiest waterfalls in a region full of great waterfalls…
This July I camped out at Bird Lake in the Yakama Nation, on the eastern foothills of Pahto - Mount Adams, Washington. This photoset is from the drive up to the camping site, through areas burnt in forest fires a couple of years ago.
This July I camped out at Bird Lake in the Yakama Nation, on the eastern foothills of Pahto - Mount Adams, Washington. This is the second photo set, featuring images from Mirror Lake and a hike up to Crooked Creek Falls.
