Less travelled path to Mount Rainier Waterfalls

scole

A forecast for showers makes it almost perfect conditions for photographing waterfalls. I decided to visit someplace new for me in the park and set out for the upper end of the Eastside Trail, starting near the Deer Creek campground. I altered my plans on the fly due to some conversation with a couple on the trail so I'll need to return to explore some of the other attractions I had originally planned on visiting..

1. Deer Creek Falls


2. Old Growth


3. Vanilla Leaf and forest floor


4. Top End of Chinook Creek Cascades


5. Chinook Creek Cascades


6. Chinook Creek Cascades


7. Stafford Falls


8. Stafford Falls from below


9. Eastside Trail


10. Ohanapecosh River immediately above the falls


11. Ohanapecosh Falls


12. Chinook Creek


I was very saturated by rain at the end of my day but it was a great day with hardly a person around. Thanks for looking..

Tharhawk

Nice set Steve. One of my favorite kayak trips of all time was creek boating the Ohane. A truly gorgeous river.

scole

Thanks, Jason. It is a bit weird to be in the amazing place and look up to see the retaining wall for SR-123. I remember two winters ago gearing up for the snowy hike up to the Grove of the Patriarchs from the US-12/SR-123 junction and there were a couple of Kayakers gearing up. Seemed odd given the conditions!

Awais Yaqub

Beautiful set of photos! really like the perspective on 3 and 8

dogwood

Nice set! Looks green and mossy. Must be that nearly ten inches of rain that has fallen in western Oregon/Washington since early May!