Mt Rainier Snowshoe 12-31-2012

This was a nice way to end 2012: on December 31st 2012, Shannon and I went snowshoeing at Paradise in Mt. Rainier National Park. We rented snowshoes in Longmire, put on chains, drove do Paradise and did a loop through parts of the Skyline Trail. We went up to Panorama Point and took a slightly different route on the way back. It was an easy and relatively short hike: 1700 feet of elevation gain and about 3.5 hours of total hiking time if I remember well. Weather was not too bad: cloudy, but the clouds were very high, with maybe the top 1/3 or 1/4 of the mountain hidden and very good air transparency below the cloud layer. Needless to say that both the day before and the day after our visit were perfectly sunny.

Dobry sposob na zakonczenie roku 2012: pojechalismy z Shannonem do Mt. Rainier National Park, wypozyczylismy rakiety w Longmire, zalozylismy lancuchy, pojechalismy do Paradise i zrobilismy latwa i przyjemna trase do Panorama Point i z powrotem troche inna droga. W sumie jakies 500 metrow do gory i 3.5 godziny lazenia po sniegu. Pogoda byla nie najgorsza, pochmurno, ale chmury bardzo wyskokie, tak za tylko jakas 1/4 czy 1/4 gory byla w chmurach a widocznosc ponizej poziomu chmur byla swietna. Oczywiscie zarowno dzien przed, jak i dzien po naszej wizycie byl sloneczny...