Coming down from Sunrise

Mt. Rainier

Mount Rainier from Sunrise

Blooming wildflowers at Sunrise

The wildflowers bloomed a little early this year at Mount Rainier and the weather was picture perfect this weekend so we decided to take a motorcycle ride up to see them. We've lived here 9 years now and have never seen the wildflowers bloom and spent far too little town at this beautiful national gem. The wildflowers were everything I expected, sadly this picture doesn't do them justice, but getting constantly dive bombed by horse flies the size of my thumb made for a bit of a nuisance. The motorcycle ride up to the top couldn't have been better either. We got stuck in some pretty bad traffic in Enumclaw because the Highland Games were going on that weekend too, but once we were past that it was clear sailing. The rode through the park up to the summit was gorgeous and full of twisties so you could really lean into the corners.