A trip to Paradise
We drove up to the Paradise area in Mount Rainier National Park yesterday. There are lots of paved trails through the alpine meadows where flowers bloom briefly in late July and August, but right now there’s still quite a bit of snow on the ground and the flowers are just starting to hint at what’s coming.
It was a mob scene anyway, with big crowds of tourists (mostly Indian families) checking out the areas closest to the visitor center. Walking a mile uphill seemed to fix that, though, and we had a bit of solitude in places, including Alta Vista peak to ourselves.
Not to leap to conclusions, but I’m guessing that deer has been fed by tourists.
The pictures start here.
This entry was posted on Sunday, July 8th, 2007 at 9:56 am. You can subscribe to comments on this post through its RSS feed.
on July 8, 2007 at 8:11 pm Mr. Bruce wrote:
“…with big crowds of tourists (mostly Indian families)” (???) That’s new.
Was curious, was that peak the inspiration for the search engine name?
Beautiful place. Hamburgers and coffee taste better there.
on July 8, 2007 at 9:05 pm Doug wrote:
Hey, I always assumed AltaVista got its name from that peak, just because I knew of the peak before the search engine came along. But after a bit of searching it seems that it’s a coincidence: both were named after the concept of “view from above,” independently.
on July 9, 2007 at 7:42 am Megan wrote:
I think a lot of things are called Alta Vista….
on July 9, 2007 at 10:58 am Doug wrote:
Yes, Dear.
Probably more things in CA than in WA … I still find it confusing that so many streets down there have Calle in the name.
on July 9, 2007 at 10:55 pm George Siede wrote:
I assume you are being glib there but just in case you are not I think you should know that ‘calle’ is the spanish word for street.
on July 10, 2007 at 3:34 am Tarun wrote:
Hey Doug,
Never knew you played golf!!!.
Next time when in Delhi, remind me and we would happily Tee off.:)
Tarun