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Cascades from Paradise
Looking to the southwest from Paradise on Mt. Rainier, you can see the Cascade range stretching for miles.
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The Tatoosh Range
The Tatoosh Range of mountains rises up across the Nisqually River to the south of Paradise. They are quite spectacular to see.
A Paradise Webcam points at the Tatoosh mountains, which give you a view here.
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Snow depth at Paradise
As I mentioned Sunday afternoon, Paradise is one of the snowiest places on the planet. Not cold, necessarily, just gets a lot of snow; over 600 inches of snowfall in an average year. Of course, over the course of the winter, some of that melts, and it all packs down, so the depth isn’t that high. You can see in the picture below that the depth on Sunday morning was just about 15 feet.
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Snowshoeing on Mt. Rainier
My boss arranged for the group, and family members, to go up to Paradise on Mt. Rainier today. The weather couldn’t have been more perfect. With all the cool nasty weather this winter, the road to Paradise was closed for something like 10 days, after getting 13 feet of snow in 10 days or so starting January 29th.
Today the sun came out the mountain stayed mostly visible, along with the other Cascade mountains in the area. They currently have 15 feet of snow on the ground at Paradise where they measure the snowpack. Of all the places in the world, Paradise held the record of most snowfall in a season until 1999, when Mt. Baker beat them.
Nikki got some good pictures that I will post over the next few days. We’ll start with this one from the parking lot at Paradise just before we started home.
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Here’s the Ideal business for an avid RVer
Via RVTravel newsletter, I found this article about Private Motor Coach, Inc. This business involves carrying one to four people wherever they want to go in the Americas. He handles everything from Long trips with one person (49 days and 10,115 miles) from Texas to Alaska, and groups for a day around town.
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A Million Dollar View
Take a look at this view of Mt. Baker from the front of The Admiral while sitting at the Hudson Point Marina and RV Resort in Port Townsend, Washington. All for only $30/night.
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Pierce County in Franklin County
From our trip to Port Townsend last weekend, the Pierce County ferry, Steilacoom II crossing Admiralty Inlet from between Port Townsend and Keystone on Whidbey Island.
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Geek RVers. You gotta love it!
Ran into this video podcast, GeekBrief.tv. Cali Lewis, GeekBrief anchor, plans to buy a motorhome and travel to all 50 states (not sure how she’s planning to get to Hawaii), taking her show on the road.
RV’s and technology, how cool is that?
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Lunar Eclipse Tonight
While out walking, we saw the lunar eclipse. When we got back it was almost fully eclipsed. Nikki went in and got her camera.
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