Day 6: Sunday 7/14/13 Pick up Allie and Drive to Mount Rainier

We picked Allie up at the Portland airport at 9:00 on Sunday morning and went straight to a laundromat to wash her entire bag of stinky clothes!  Then we went to our hotel so she could take a shower!  After that, we hit the road back north toward Mount Rainier.

We got a campsite that afternoon at Cougar Rock campground in Mount Rainier National Park, which was a beautiful campground with lots of spaces and good privacy.  We set up camp then went to explore a little.  We planned to do our long hike the next morning, so we walked the easy 1.2 mile loop of the Nisqually Vista Trail, which has great views of the Nisqually Glacier.  There are 25 glaciers on Mount Rainier.

We also stopped at Narada Falls, which is one of the more spectacular falls in the park, but does not compare to our falls in Pisgah National Forest!

We stopped along the main road and walked out to a glacial stream bed which was pretty amazing.

After this we headed back to our campsite for a gourmet dinner of hotdogs with sweet hot mustard and pepper jack cheese and fresh cherries for dessert (although Allie roasted some of hers on the stove).