Mt Rainier Camping Trip

This weekend my dad and I went camping up at Mt Rainier. We went up Saturday, hiking from the Paradise parking lot. It was a beautiful day as we hiked up the mountain but as the sun started to fall storm clouds moved in and started dumping a combination of rain and snow on us. We had just found a place to camp so we immediately scrambled to pitch our tent as the rain continued to poor down, the sun set, and the wind picked up. Once our tent was up we got all our gear inside and tried to warm up.

The next morning we woke up as the sun was rising, the wind was still blowing and it was cold as hell. We waited in the tent for about an hour and a half as the shadows from the surrounding mountains slowly lifted off our camp. Once we had sun we made some breakfast, packed up our stuff and head back down.

Our camp site at the base of Mt Rainier. (click for large version)