CategoryPacific Northwest

Mt. Rainier National Park

Last weekend Scott and I went exploring and we made it all the way to Mt. Rainier National Park. I never thought I would be using the words Summer and snow in the same sentence but I guess welcome to Washington! I knew the mountain had snow on the top year round I did not think that it was something we were going to see let alone spend time playing in. We drove up to the top to a little place called Paradise. They have an awesome lodge up there as well as a welcome center and multiple trail heads. From what I understand this place is pretty much covered with snow in the winter. Heck it’s July and there were still piles of snow 10 feet high! We hiked up in the snow for about 45 mins to an hour before we decided we needed to turn back. Neither of us was dressed for the weather … we both had on shorts and t shirts. I found out that is was really fun after you fall down in the snow to just slide on down the rest of the hill on your rear!

We hope to visit again next month and see some of the wild flowers that are trying to come up!

Lester, Washington

Since I am still new to Washington and this is my first Summer here I look for FUN things to do in my time off. My friends and I read an article about a town call Lester and that it was abandon, we thought it could be an interesting adventure. Well an adventure is sure what we got! Not only was the town torn down 2 years ago … it was also almost a 3 hour drive to get there! We made the best of the day and had blast just exploring our new state. It was a very pretty place to visit … but not exactly what we were looking for.

That was what we found … a whole bunch of NO TRESPASSING signs and a very nice police man making sure we didn’t go past the lines ….

This was the only thing that actually told us we were in Lester. My friends wondered why we didn’t find the town we were promised. The sad part is the article was written last year …. I’m guessing they didn’t actually go there they just took some photos off the internet.

And this was the only thing that looked like it could have belong to the town… everything else was missing! Here is the link to how we found out about the town. www.onlyinyourstate.com

Note to self … when you Google an old abandon ghost town … click on the FULL Wikipedia link … Because we read this …. “Lester was a small town near Stampede Pass, just south of Snoqualmie Pass in King County, founded in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Railway. Lester is located along what is currently National Forest Development Road 54.” This fun little nugget was not included in the preview … “It was one of the few ghost towns in the U.S. state of Washington. It was destroyed in 2017.” Thanks Wikipedia

After publishing a photographer friend of mine sent me some photos she took with there last November! Check them out here! flickr.com/photos