The mountain from skyline trail.
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A virtual visit to the mountain-part 6

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This is my last Mount Rainier gallery, from last year, 2019. It wasn’t exceptional, but any visit to the mountain is a good one.

Mail drop at Paradise Inn.
Locally we just call it "the mountain".
Small bird with a carterpillar or worm.
Paradise Inn with the Tatoosh range in the background.
Small chipmunk eating a flower.
An almost full moon not long after moonrise over the Tatoosh range.
Alpine trees and the south-eastern flank of Mount Rainier.
Blue alpine lupines.
Hiker on Alta Vista, Tatoosh range in the background.
Magenta Indian paintbrush.
Rosy spirea.
Golden mantle ground squirrel munching on a lupine.
Lewis's Monkeyflower.
Wooley marmot or whistle pig.
The mountain from skyline trail.
Meadows and Cascade Mountains from near Panarama Point on Mount Rainier, near Paradise.
Gentians.
Misty morning.
Blue grouse courting: the male has his tail spread and bright yellow facial spots showing.
Black bear in the meadows at Paradise.
Edith Creek runs through the meadows near Paradise.
Creek along the lakes trail near Paradise.
A hillside of lupines along the lakes trail from Paradise.
Pasque flower seed head, sparkling with dew drops.
view of the Cascade mountains from along the Lakes Trail from Paradise.
Gentians.
Dew drops on seed head.
Mountain daisy and dew drops.

The toast we say with our friends who meet us there is : “anotheryear in Paradise!” Here’s to that thought.

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