Box Canyon: 50th Anniversary trip

 Friday August 27th, the weather was supposed to be cloudy with a chance of showers. We chose to drive around and to be tourists for this day.

We drove to Box Canyon and walked the scenic loop trail.

My husband said lets take photos of each other taking photos, so of course we did.

Along the trail are rocks that have been smoothed by glaciers moving over them. I was dismayed to see they had all been vandalized. Hopefully signs will be put along the fence discouraging this behavior.

Looking down at the trail bridge that crosses the canyon.

The view from the trail bridge.

My husband likes to take random photos of me. Here I am adjusting my shoe laces. I like to have even pressure of my laces on each foot. If I feel like one shoe is tighter or looser than the other I am always adjusting the laces. Just one of my OCD moments captured in a photo. You can be thankful he didn't take photos of all of the times I stop the take out the fir needles or grains of sand out of my shoes. Don't get me started on wrinkled or bunched up socks.....What can I say I have sensitive feet.

We continued up the trail that goes over the road and the tunnel.

Here I am after we'd made our way down the trail before walking back through the tunnel. Of course I had to stop and have my photo taken at the sign for my favorite trail.

Box Canyon tunnel. The trail we'd just hiked went over this tunnel.

A view of the canyon below from the road bridge.

Near the parking lot is an information rest area. I took a photo of the plaque that was on the rock there.

To be continued.....

At camp: 50th Anniversary trip

 We decided to take our 50th Anniversary trip to a place we had hiked the day after our marriage 50 years ago: Pinnacle saddle. The timing was right, I had just finished my last radiation treatment. It has been 7 months from finding out that I had Endometrial Cancer to my last radiation treatment. I had finally completed the 6 cycles of Carbo/Taxol chemo and the 5 internal HDR Brachytherapy treatments, so my husband and I were happy to get away and celebrate.

When we left Thursday morning (August 26th) we were greeted by a beautiful rainbow. We decided that was a good omen❤.

We left at 6 am because we were hoping to get a first come first serve site at the Cougar Rock campsite near Longmire in the Mount Rainier National park. Wednesday we checked out the campground online and saw that there was nothing available to reserve, so we wrote out the available "FF" (first come first serve) sites and crossed our fingers that we could get a site when we pulled in.

We got to the campground at 11:30 am and got a site. After we pulled in we realized it was very small so we looked around and found another available site. Luckily the ranger switched our site! The new one was much larger. It even had a sunken living room😉

A couple of view pics from camp.

The weather forecast predicted light rain for Thursday but getting better throughout the weekend.

To be continued......