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
Enough of Rainier, this is further north in the Cascade Mountains. This is the mountain with the alpenglow from earlier in the presentation. It is quite a slog to get this view but it is worth it – it is one of those views that is hidden until the last minute, you pop over the ridge and there it is.
The Skyline Divide is another hike near Mt Baker, the parking lot is up 5 miles of steep and twisty dirt road and this was at least 3 miles of hiking from the car! In a competition the judge said he thought the image wasn’t sharp but then did a bit of pixel peeping and saw that each grain of ice is sharp, it just looks fuzzy.
