a much more gentle sort of back country skiing. Coming off the ridge that forms the backdrop for the ski road image
Wild camping in the National Park isn’t allowed unless you are on more than 10” of snow. My tent is the green one discreetly tucked in among the trees not the garish yellow one. Even though there is 3000’ of ascent to get to this spot you can see its gets quite a bit of traffic
Westside Road is an abandoned road up the west side of Mt Rainier. The river crossing about a quarter of a mile in kept on getting washed away so there is 13 miles of paved road with no vehicles. This is about 8 miles in where it drops off between the trees. As you can see I was first there
