🥾Views from 30 miles on Mt. Rainier! 🏔🌦

Mt. Rainier National Park Trip Report: backpacking in glistening sun, through the alpine clouds, and the some of the heaviest rain my little tent has ever seen.

Alpine lakes around Mt. Rainier National Park and surrounding wilderness

At least it kept the mosquito swarms away.. mostly.

• We cut 37 logs (a new record)!

• Tackled some wildly hazardous work sites

• Luckily weren’t too affected by the fires

• Even still managed some gorgeous mountain views!🥂

Wild Flowers on Mt. Rainier.

One Happy Camper! Just after hiking to camp on day one where we covered the majority of the milage. The most incredible views!

We made some incredible friends, we passed lots of hikers thanking us for our work and giving us jolly ranchers and hi-chews along the way…

I even came back to parking ticket on my van because they couldn’t see my wilderness pass LOL. - the forest service took care of me, don't worry!

Sunset views out my tent vestibule.

But the best part- this was also the first trail crew I was joined by not only a second, but THREE redheads working together on the team!

We were quite the fiery trio all together. That 2% population must be growing somewhere.

The crew- 3 redheads and counting!

Here’s to gingers uniting in the backcountry- huzzah!

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Thank you to the Pacific Crest Trail Association and the White Pass Chapter!🦋

originally posted August 20, 2024 https://www.instagram.com/p/C-65aO-xNRJ/?img_index=9&igsh=MTVldGoxbTZ6NzJ4ag==