Glorious Wildflowers in Mount Rainier National Park

This morning Rebekah, Andrew and I drove 45 minutes to the top of Chinook Pass in Mount Rainier National Park to take one of our favorite hikes -- The Naches Loop. It was a perfect summer day with temperatures in the 70s and not a cloud int he sky. The wildflowers were brilliant red, purple, white, yellow... and with Mount Rainier, Mount Adams and four glacier fed lakes as a background every step of this easy 4.5 mile hike was breathtakingly beautiful. Above the top of Rainier looks like a big ice cream cone.

Andrew and Rebekah surrounded by purple lupine stop for a photo on the trail.
Andrew and Rebekah above Dewey LakeAndrew and Brad in the middle of flowers, lakes and mountains.

This photo shows Rainier with some of the surrounding terrain and a couple of my favorite biking roads in the world. The bottom middle is the Chinook Pass highway, the right hand middle (a little hard to see in this small photo) is the road to Sunrise. Both roads are good hard climbs with incredible scenery at every turn.