Day 12 – Burned Out on Beauty

We got a late start to the day. We had planned on that. I had to do some work, so that ate time. Also, we applied heat to my knee last night, and that only made it worse. I woke up at 2AM with pain and swelling. The swelling persisted most of the day.

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Day 12 – Mount Rainier

Well, Robert had a work phone call this morning, so it was another late start, but the bed was nice at the Cedars Inn. We got some coffee and breakfast sandwiches from the little coffee hut next to the inn and pondered our route for the day. Originally, we had planned on camping at Mowich Lake and hiking up to Spray Park, but with Robert’s knee slightly worse (we heated when we should have iced) and some info from a local, we decided that we would drive around Rainier and maybe camp on the south side of the park. Continue reading “Day 12 – Mount Rainier”