Mount Rainier GeoTour

Mount Rainier from White River Valley
at Sunset

In a nice marketing move, the Visit Rainier organization leveraged the 100th anniversary of Mt. Rainier National Park by creating a series of 100 geocaches in and mostly around the park.  The caches were released in groups of 25 about every 6 months, and were placed so that you would have to travel around the mountain for each of the groups. 
We began this last year, and were a couple of short for Series 1 before the snows came.  Series 2 came in the fall of 2015, and we were busy and couldn't get to any.  Series 3 came right before we went camping over the weekend of July 4th, so we decided to get as many as we could. 

We obtained 42 of them the weekend of the 4th, I got another half-dozen a couple of weekends later, and last weekend, we got back to the Sunrise side of the park and polished off the last ones.  A little hiking, a little camping, a little sightseeing.  We went up to Crystal Mountain Ski Resort to see the Perseid meteor shower, but after an hour without a trace, we gave up.  It was still nice to see the stars outside of the city lights.