Rainier Vistas

Mount Rainier...as always absolutely spectacular!  Yeah, I've taken this pic several times before but it's always good.

Quite the pile of rock.

Profuse wildflowers, of many species. 

Map of the Paradise area.  Blow it up for better detail.  We hiked up to a little past Glacier Vista.

Paradise at the flowering peak, August 20.

Four species flower macro.

Mount Adams, on the southern horizon.  Almost a twin of Rainier.

Rainier from timberline, near Glacier Vista.

The waterfall here is actually 150-200 feet high, dropping meltwater underneath Nisqually glacier.

Blow up the pic and check out the crevasses on Nisqually glacier, about in the middle of the photo.

My ol' dormmate Dick doing the Everest sherpa trek gig.

Sound of Music territory!  Where's Julie Andrews when you need her??

The lupines were profuse!  Don't recall seeing any better displays.

Macro shot. 

Another great flower shot.  Usually when you try to take a broad shot of a large flower field, the green grass overwhelms the other colors.  Not here!