Our Hiking Adventures: Adventures Around The Sunrise Area & The White River Campgrounds.

The sense of adventure runs deep in my soul on Friday I had a wonderful opportunity to see it emerge out of my son in one of my favorite places Mt. Rainier. Our hike to Sunrise Lake was cut short due to this mommas lack of planning the trail started off some small patches of snow on that where fun and easy to cross while see where the trail picked back up on the other side.Then we came to a point in the trail where it become very unsafe for us to continue on so we turned back.

This is where I made the executive decision to not go on

We then went and played in the snow at the picnic area at Sunrise after playing and exploring our pants where soaked.

We needed to warm up so we got back in the car and drove to the white river campgrounds where we both need to make a quick potty break stop at. After we where done using the bathroom Ethan saw a bunch of climbers walking from a trail and he decided we need to explore the trail. As we where walking up the trail we talked with a couple of the climbers. They didn't make it to the summit due to bad weather, and no visibility for one of the climbers this was his second attempt at summiting Rainier. It put a smile on his face to see such a young boy being so eager to play and explore in the woods. The trail we where on was the Glacier Basin Trail we walked, and ran for about 30 minutes on the trail than headed back to the car. As far as we got the trail was pretty flat and very easy to follow. The Glacier Basin Trail is 6 Round trip with a 1600 feet in elevation gain. I see this as a future trail that we will do but for now 6 miles round trip is a little much Ethan.