I did not do near as much actual hiking, like on trails, as I had planned. But, I did do a whole lot of walking. Walking to Costco and back for lunch. Walking the trails at Robin Hill Park (that almost counts). Walking all over the neighborhood, etc. This turns out to be more practical when one has a little baby to look out for.
But I did do one more hike the week after the Baldy/Maynard Burn hike, which was to hike the Upper Dungeness to Royal Basin trail. And I did the same thing, being on a limited time budget, I walked for an hour then turned around and went back. So I didn't get anywhere near Royal Basin,which I guess is pretty cool and I need to actually get up there sometime. This was so long ago that I don't remember any particular highlights, but I at least produced a trip log at the time. I thought I had taken a few photos on that hike, but perhaps I didn't since I can't find them now; or perhaps they got lost in my computer crashes of early 2015.
What else did I do? Well, we try to do a family hike at Mt. Rainier every year with my Dad, which is his favorite place to hike and I definitely like it as well. In 2014 (before I started with trip reports) we hiked Pinnacle Peak, and last summer we finally managed to do another Mt. Rainier hike on September 5th. The funny thing was we originally planned this for August 29th but that was the day of the big windstorm, well advertised by forecasters, so we postponed it a week. Then on Sept 5th we showed up at Sunrise to hike and it was freezing dang cold and windy with 3-4" of snow on the ground. We went down to the White River Campground area and did the moraine trail instead. I had forgotten the moraine trail leads away from the Emmons Glacier the farther up you go, and I had wanted to get closer to the glacier, but oh well. I was also disappointed to find the last 1/2 mile of the moraine trail, that I know I hiked as a kid, is overgrown and no longer maintained. Anyway, here are a few photos.
Snow at Sunrise, 9/5/15. I guess it fell the evening before.
Emmons Glacier. This glacier actually advanced somewhat in the 90's but seems to have finally joined in with its friends retreating somewhat (although not too far yet).
New bridge across the Inter Fork White River, where a recent washout occurred.
Then last October I took my son on a Sunday afternoon hike on the Slab Camp trail, which begins (appropriately enough) at the Slab Camp trailhead (the closest to our house, only 22 minutes away!) and descends to the Graywolf River. That was a good time although the trail is one of those that goes down, then you have to climb back up. We had done this before with the whole family, perhaps 3 or 4 years back. I didn't take a lot of pics but here is are a couple.
Couldn't say what this is, but it looked cool.
Finally, so far this spring I have already done two hikes in the Olympic Mountains, Cascade Rock, and Ned Hill. They were recent enough that I feel I remember them sufficiently well to provide a near-full report on each. I'll be optimistic and aim to give them each their own space here on the blog within the next couple of weeks. It would be exciting to actually catch up!
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