One of our first all day outings was in April of 2015.  We were heading across White Pass.  We passed an interesting side road, which in hind site, was probably just like a thousand side roads we had already passed.  Marty said she had never been down that road.  I told her that I had always wanted to go down side roads in the mountains.  EERRRCCHHH, she applied the brakes and we backed up to this special road.  And off to the right!!!!

What a lovely find and the smell of the mountain was better than a good perfume.

Well, until we found this little beauty that thrives in the swampy areas.  Marty said it is called skunk weed.  And indeed it was.

There were babbling brooks, can you hear them?  That year we had a shortage of snow on the mountains.  A lot of streams we passed were dry.  We found a cool looking dead tree with a hole in it.  Mount Rainier was shrouded in clouds and it's snow pack was sparse.  But the mountains are the mountains.  Ain't it grand.