'round the sound photolog

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Spray Falls (along the Spray Park trail from Mowich Lake), Mount Rainier National Park

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Mount Rainier from Tolmie Peak, Tolmie Peak and view

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Eastern face of Mount Rainier from Eagle Cliff lookout (along the Spray Park Trail from Mowich Lake)

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Mowich Lake, Mount Rainier National Park

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Western face of Mount Rainier from Tolmie Peak

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Spray Falls (along the Spray Park trail from Mowich Lake), Mount Rainier National Park

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Chain Lakes Loop trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

8.27.22

Marmot spotting!

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Chain Lakes Loop trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

8.27.22

I believe that is Ptarmigan Ridge in the first photo, and the rest are of Table Mountain as we circumnavigated it. The colors and textures of the bare earth felt so departed from everyday life, even though the same things are lying below all the greenery I usually see.

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Chain Lakes Loop trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

8.27.22

The sun started to peek out as we passed the fork in the trail to Ptarmigan Ridge and illuminated the smaller lakes on the western side of Table Mountain.

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Chain Lakes Loop trail, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

8.27.22

I hadn't been to this side of the mountain before, but Mt. Baker was still hidden behind the clouds like the last time I was up here. But the little lakes we saw were picturesque and calming.

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On the trail to Tolmie Peak, Mountain Rainier National Park

8.5.22

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On the trail to Tolmie Peak, Mountain Rainier National Park

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Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park

8.8.22

At Spray Park again. I was at an elevation where the trees and grass and flowers find a natural boundary and give way to stark fields of rock and gravel and snow. The contrast is very beautiful, especially in the setting sun.

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Spray Park, Mount Rainier National Park

8.8.22

The end of the Spray Park trail at Mount Rainier. I arrived right at sunset, so the colors were stunning on the mountain. The wildflowers were still in bloom, and, where the meadows give way to bare rocks and boulders at higher elevations, the fields of speckled color dropped off dramatically into huge valleys far below. It was another hike where the clouds cleared away right as I reached the summit.

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Along the Burke-Gilman trail, Seattle

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I passed by these hydrangeas while riding my bike next to the lake.

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Edmonds, Snohomish County

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Spotted another critter in the bushes!

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Edmonds, Snohomish County

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Spotted a critter on the sidewalk!