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p.1 #1 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

I will be at Mt Rainier on Wed the 19th, will there be any wild flowers, where?

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Tim Q

Jun 15, 2013 at 03:31 PM

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p.1 #2 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

I have usually been there in Early August. Paradise is a good place to start looking. This early the flowers are probably at lower elevations however.

Jun 15, 2013 at 03:49 PM

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p.1 #3 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

Snow still there...sunrise point won't even be open until mid July

Jun 15, 2013 at 07:23 PM

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p.1 #4 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

timothyq wrote:
I will be at Mt Rainier on Wed the 19th, will there be any wild flowers, where?

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Tim Q

No way mate, we were there mid June last year and there was multiple feet of snow still covering everywhere. You need to go in August for that.

Jun 15, 2013 at 08:47 PM

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p.1 #5 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

I wouldn't expect a lot of flowers until the snow has had a chance to melt. Check out the second picture on this current post and you will see that a melt is a ways off yet.

As for Sunrise, the park service always try to make a point of opening it up just before the July 4 holiday.

Jun 16, 2013 at 12:07 AM

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p.1 #6 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

Thanks for the info. I will plan on working the lower areas and sunrise/set

Tim Q

Jun 16, 2013 at 12:31 PM

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p.1 #7 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

There should be lots of flowers where the snow has melted.

Jun 16, 2013 at 02:33 PM

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p.1 #8 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

I was down near Rainier this weekend and there were plenty of flowers below the 3500 foot level, so you just have to stay in the woods. The Ohanapecosh and Longmire areas are your best bets within the park.

Jun 17, 2013 at 01:19 AM

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p.1 #9 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

I would wait till late July if you want to photograph near the alpine.

Jun 17, 2013 at 11:48 AM

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p.1 #10 · wild flowers at Mt Rainier?

Here is the link for the Mt. Rainier National Park Web cams:
www.nps.gov/mora/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm
We took a drive up to Longmire today, a few flowers along the road at lower elevations, and the fragrance of Skunk Cabbage in the air. Wild flowers at Paradise and Sunrise are more late July and well in to August, still snow up in those higher elevations right now.
Rich T.

Jun 17, 2013 at 08:33 PM


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