The most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens
Every July my soul starts wandering in the direction of this most heavily glaciated peak...
If you missed me last week, well, I missed you too! Given some fun personal updates (more on that at the bottom of this note) along with such a slow news week, I figured we’d give the old inboxes a break. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
When describing Mount Rainier, John Muir said it best, “the most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings.” After a decade exploring all the great things to do at Mount Rainier National Park, I can't say I disagree.
Here’s my camping pick of the week.
Every July my soul starts wandering in the direction of this most heavily glaciated peak (in the contiguous US) – Mount Rainier. I can’t count the number of times I’ve visited this park. In a phrase, “not enough”. There’s just something special about the alpine beauty here that sets it apart from the rest of the Pacific Northwest.
Despite the new reservation system here and increasing crowds, a summer visit is always…