Month: July 2014

Crystal Mt. – Monday July 28, 2014

Another write offline to be published later.

Monday Hank and I hiked up to Bullion Basin.  It was a beautiful day, we had a good time and were TIRED when we got back.  Left about 10:30 back at 3:00.

 

Here is topo InReach view of the hike.
This is the satellite view.
Picture of Bullion Basin, and yes the basin is named for gold bullion.  This whole valley was a gold mining area in 1890’s.
Hank asking do we have to stop NOW, I still want to smell thinks.  When he’s hiking up the trail he pants to stay cool and drags his tongue in the dirt and dust someday I’ll remember to take a picture of his dirt tongue (happy Hank).

Picture of Mt. Rainier from just before the trail reaches Bullion Basin.

 

I have more Mt. Rainier pictures, here is three more 13, 14 & 15.

Have a great day.

Crystal Mt. – Sunday July 27, 2014

Lange Family Retirement weekend continued through today.  As I said Brian was not able to attend and he was missed.  We had a great time and the weather was wonderful.  Saturday morning Jean, Tanya, Mike, Hank and I went up to Sunrise on Mt. Rainier so Mike could say he’d been to Mt. Rainier and the rest of us had not been to Sunrise for a long time.  Christine got here at noon and we all enjoyed a beautiful day and evening around a campfire.

(editorial comment: I’m writing this offline with MS Word and the blogger template, so we’ll see what happens.  I have 4 pictures to put into the blog which are on this laptop and will need to be uploaded to wordpress. We’ll see if they upload by putting them into this document, if they don’t I’ll upload them into the workpress media folder and insert them online.) (Posting through MS Word did not work, I uploaded pictures to wordpress and cut and paste the text.)
I thought this was a nice back drop for a flag picture.
I took a bunch of flag pictures and I liked these the best.
Here is Tanya, Mike and Tanya’s little friend.

I also liked this picture.

I’m going to try and post this now in case it doesn’t work and I have to rewrite it. (didn’t work through MS Word, oh well.)

 

I still have pictures from out Mt. Rainier stay.

Here is 10, 11, and 12.

Crystal Mt. – Thursday July 24, 2014

We are back to Crystal Mt. for Lange family camping weekend.

Campsite and traveling flamingo pictures.

This will be our family ( less Brian) retirement party.  Brian gets to work this weekend at Village Theatre. Tanya will be here tomorrow afternoon, Mike in the evening with Christine and Benedick coming Saturday morning. Weather is going to be mid 80’s. 

Last night was family (less Brian) “Book of Mormon” night, truly a funny musical.  This is the second time to see the musical and a week after Tanya returned from UUUganda, it was a fun evening.

 

Crystal Mt. – Friday July 18, 2014

Hank and I were up early to hike in a new direction.  Up at 6:30 and out the door at 7:00 a.m.  We went to Sand Flats campground and headed up the trail.
We were back at 11:00 8.2 miles.  We went up and back the same trail.  I think the line shows some separation because in the lower section we were on a hill side in some large timber.  As soon as we got a little higher and into some more open areas the tracks stay the same.

Here is the track for the week.  The single line to the left is our track driving to Paradise on the 7th, I was to lazy to filter it out.

The next pictures are from our campsite in parking lot F going up valley and down valley.

It’s Friday evening and we are home for awhile get to see “Book of Mormon” on Wednesday.  By the way my Fitbit has me at over 26000 steps today.

Here are several more Mt. Rainier pictures.

Pictures (7,8,9)

 

Another great day, does seem like we just got back from our normal two week vacation and we should be going back to work on Monday ???? Hope I don’t forget Monday.

 

 

Crystal Mt. Thursday July 17, 2014

Another hike into Hen Skin Lake(s), their is actually two lakes about a quarter mile apart. Today was with Brian and Hank, it was a great day.

Upper Hen Skin

Where would we be without camera’s in our phones.

This is Lower Hen Skin from the other side from the trip a couple of days ago.
I have some wild flower pictures but they are on my camera and will have to wait.
We have been here since last Saturday and water is starting to get low. I think we will head home tomorrow afternoon before we are completely out of water.  Weather forecast is calling for rain on Saturday.
Hope this all posts I can not review the first half of what I wrote.

Crystal Mt. Tuesday July 15, 2014

Today I practiced doing nothing: finish waxing the motorhome, conditioned the side seals and took Hank for a 4 mile walk. Did get some hammock time in (thank you, Tanya). Also worked on Mt. Rainier pictures for a while. During the four days we were there last week I took 517 mountain pictures. I am going to post a few over the next weeks.

Here is today’s walk down to Sand Flats horse camp and Half Camp.
Mt. Rainier pictures:
You only get one picture today because Steve Jobs and I don’t think alike. I resized a bunch of pictures on my laptop, uploaded them to DropBox and was going to put them in this blog from my IPad. Problem is I named them in the sequence I want to post them, however once I get the picture/file to IPad I can not see the file name only the picture. Thus I can not put them in sequence because they are mixed in with a bunch of other pictures, oh we’ll.

Crystal Mt. – Monday July 14, 2014

Hank and I hiked into Hen Skin Lake today. This was my view of Hank for most of the day.

Here is the lake, however the Mosquitos did not show in the picture. The first time I hiked into HenSkin was in 1957 with my dad (small tear). Anyway Hank and I had a good time and hiked 9 miles. Weather is still holding so summer has arrived.

Wrote this off line so we will see how it posts.

Here is an InReach track of our hike, Added this with WordPress program on my IPad.

Crystal Mt. – Sunday July 13, 2014

Second try at this posting.  The first try crashed when I added the second picture, I’ll try this again.

Yesterday was one of those days when the moon is close to the earth.  Here are several pictures I took last night.  
These are all original pictures with not post editing (other than size).
We actually don’t see the moon all that often.
Hank and I want for our first hike up the valley today.  I think we went to far for him.  On the way back down he found a nice shady  tree and laid down for a while.
This picture is from my InReach tracking website, downloaded, saved and resized.  We did see some wild flowers.
This one might make a good puzzle.
Hank was tired:
It is time to pour a glass of wine and cook some Tanya steaks, Thanks Tanya.