RHH's photos with the keyword: south cascades

Last Friday we traveled to western Washington stopping to hike in the Enchantments. We hiked in snow to Colchuck Lake, a hike of ten miles and 2500 feet of elevation. The day started with rain and snow but cleared as we reached the lake. The Enchantments are a region in the Cascade Mountains of Washington near Leavenworth.

Taken on the way to Colchuck Lake in the Enchantments, a region in the Cascades Mountains of Washington. We hiked through snow most of the way and snow was falling when we started out but the weather cleared as we reached the lake.

On a return trip from eastern Washington my wife and I met my brother, Tim, at Mount Rainier and spent the day hiking with him. Both for the company and for the scenery it was one of the best days ever for hiking. When we arrived in the Sunrise area of Rainier the mountain was pretty well covered with clouds, but it was beginning to clear and it cleared completely and stayed clear the whole time we were hiking with the clouds moving in again as we left. It was the first time we'd been to this part of the national park, but it will not be the last. We hiked the First and Second Burroughs trails and part of the Third Burroughs trail and had a wonderful day together. Burroughs Mountain is a series of peaks that end right up against the northeastern face of Rainier and which provide some of the best views of the mountain anywhere. This was taken from Sourdough Ridge and the First Burroughs trail which continues in the distance in this photo and ends at the top of First Burroughs Mountain, the flat, open ridge in the distance.

We arrived in Mount Rainier National Park very early in the morning last August and coming from the west made our first stop at Kautz Creek, where this picture was taken. My wife stayed in the car sleeping while I got out to take a few photos. Kautz Creek is a tributary of the Nisqually River and is notorious for its mudflows and floods, one of which in 1947 moved 40,000,000 cubic meters of earth and buried the road from which this photo was taken with 10 meters of debris.