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<\/p>\nAfter a quick cold breakfast at the cabin we set off with Jean to the trailhead. On the way we saw a group of about 6 mountain sheep. You can see they are sheep – brown hairy coats, horns – as opposed to the white fluffy mountain goats that we saw high on the rocky slopes of Goat Rocks 2 days ago. Figure that one out!<\/p>\n
OG also pointed out to us an elk calf which was in the forest by the side of the road. So we had seen two new animals before we even started to hike.<\/p>\n
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By 7:20 we were striding along at a good pace on a pleasant path with a gentle uphill climb to start.<\/p>\n
The walking was easier today but the views were somewhat less spectacular. At about noon we found a lovely lunch spot in a shady spot beside a river and enjoyed the ham, turkey and salad rolls that I had made the day before.<\/p>\n
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Mt Rainier<\/em><\/p>\n In the afternoon the path was steeper uphill for more than 4 miles. We are camped close to a lake and have retreated to the tent to avoid the mosquitoes. We hiked 23.7 miles and have just 5 miles to go to Chinook Pass in the morning where we will briefly meet up with Jean again and collect from the van our food supplies for the next few days.<\/p>\n After a quick cold breakfast at the cabin we set off with Jean to the trailhead. On the way we saw a group of about 6 mountain sheep. You can see they are sheep – brown hairy coats, horns – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_4872-01.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-Ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_4879-013202125860912509942.jpeg\")
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