It was a pretty drive from Richland, WA to Mt Rainier. When we entered into Mt Rainier National Park we were greeted with lots of snow along the different mountains around Mt Rainier. We thought that it was going to be hard to find a campsite because it was the Monday after 4th of July and we thought people would still be on their vacation, but as it turned out the campsite we stayed at was creepy empty. We settled in and then headed up to the visitor’s center to take a small hike and try and get some good pictures of Mt Rainier. Well it turns out that most of the year there is a ring of clouds that hang around the summit of Mt Rainier so we did not really get that many good photos, but the trail we took was still really pretty. As we got back up to the parking lot from the trail we saw a pretty large mound of snow that we wanted to play in, well I ran up it and then ran down, but Joe decided to run up to slide down and while he was running up the camera fell out of his pocket into the snow. Go figure that when the camera gets dropped into soft snow it brakes, not the other few times it was dropped on the ground. It is not totally broken, it just makes a funny sounds every time we turn it on and the lens comes out. It was actually kind of funny for a couple days after “the accident” the camera would turn on and zoom for me but would shut itself off when Joe tried it. (I secretly laughed on the inside…) The next morning we took a long drive out of Mt Rainier to Mt St Helens, unfortunately I was not smart enough to think that Mt St Helens might have a ring of clouds around it like Mt Rainier, so when we finally got close enough, we could not even see the summit because it was under so many clouds. Even though we took the long way the drive was very pretty through different kinds of forests and scenery. After seeing, or not seeing much of Mt St Helens we drove to Portland where we were supposed to meet up with our old roommate Katie Bull’s sister Jessica.
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