Sunday, July 10, 2011

4th of July at Ohanapecosh

My parents, my brother's family, Tyler, and I all met up at Ohanapecosh for the 4th of July this year! So much fun. It is located off of road 123 in the Mt. Rainier National Park. It took us about 2 hours and 30 minutes to arrive. There are camp grounds, hiking trails, waterfalls, giant trees, and places to go cliff jumping (about 20 feet so not super high). The weather was perfect, it was fun to see my family, and we had a tasty picnic as well. 

 My nephew and niece are standing in front of one of the giant trees that was cut down. It was over 750 years old! 

 Tyler is checking out one of the first mini water falls we saw on our hike. 


 Jileesa, is all ready to hike!

 Steve using a natural bridge instead of the man made one we all crossed

Tyler and the Ohanapecosh or Stafford Falls (apparently they've been called both.)



Mist from the falls were getting water droplets on the camera, but can you see the rainbow I was trying to take a picture of?

There was a sign and a park ranger making sure only 1 person crossed the bridge at a time

We decided the two kiddos counted as 1 person :)

Yes, I was the annoying photographer that made them stop and wave to me while crossing the bridge

Jileesa standing between 2 giant trees in the Grove of the Patriarchs 

4 comments:

Renae said...

Ohanapecosh is so much fun!

Jackie said...

What a beautiful hike!

Michael and Anita said...

We love Ohanapecosh!

Julie said...

Fun! We love that place! Miss you guys!