To the Yurt- All terrain hiking fun!

Amy: We drove with Corrine to the upper snow park and our car got stuck but we pushed it out. At the upper snow park, I threw lots of snowballs at people and mom and I took our obligatory selfie with a snowball.

Amy: When I got really tired, I collapsed in the snow and mom stopped to let me have a breather break.

Mom: I was glad we were able to drive to the upper sno park to avoid the steep mile hike between upper and lower sno parks. It was snowy and beautiful.

Mom: We made our way slowly toward the Yurt- 3 miles up and two miles down. Corrine and I had been here once before but this was Amy's first time and Corrine's dad joined us.

Amy: Sometimes when we passed a tree, I would shake the branches so all the snow would fall off. It was fun.

Amy: Another time that I collapsed on that trip. Boy, that trip was tiring.

Mom: The wet snow continued to fall as we climbed higher toward the Yurt. We took lots of breaks.
+note of Amy's: my note (my forehead was covered by my hood and there was hair in my face)

Mom: It was cloudy and snowing but super fun and challenging to hike uphill toward the Yurt.

Mom: Taking a break and enjoying being on snowshoes.

Amy: I also collapsed at the prayer flags at the top of a hill.

Amy: It was so windy up there that we went on, even though we were VERY tired.

Amy: We hiked on through the snow.

Mom: We were so excited to see the prayer flags and then there was more down than up but still some climbing left to go.

Mom: The last of the climbing was really challenging because the snow was very wet and dragging the sled through the "Cascade concrete" was getting hard. Putting it on my back was just as bad or worse. Corrine helped me out with the sled at the end. Amy made it look easy! I was stopping to catch my breath very often. Amy's note: DIDN'T→     ↑    

Amy: The yurt in all it's glory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Exclamation party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom: More prayer flags at the yurt. We were glad to make it to our cozy destination!

Mom: National Park Jenga. Amy looks worried it will fall!

Mom: Eating delicious food in the decked out yurt.

Amy: We enjoyed the heat, games and beds.

Amy: We wrote a poem abut our trip:
3/26/18
Our car got stuck.
Someone showed up to our luck.
We hiked along
and sang a song.
We worked so hard
In Mt. Rainier's backyard.
We made it up the very LONG hill
To find the flags that are flying still.
The snow kept falling.
By the end we were stalling.
We got to the yurt in the end.
It was as inviting as a friend.
When we arrived there was no heat,
But we enjoyed an evening treat.
When we get back to the car
We'll have many memories from afar.

-Thank you Mt. Tahoma Trails!
Melody, mom, 40, Portland OR
Amy, 9, Portland OR

Amy: I ate an icicle the next day.

Mom: I love Mt. Tahoma trails so much! The yurt is absolutely magical!

Mom: Heading back the next day. The snow was pretty deep between the Yurt and Snow Bowl turnoff.

Mom: The mostly downhill 5 miles was much easier, the "Cascade concrete" snow acting as a break and keeping the runaway sled beside and behind me. We enjoyed walking together.

Mom: Following the ski tracks through the snowy trees back down toward the car.

Mom: What a beautiful spring break snowy adventure!

Mom: On the way back we started making a snowman but the snowball I tried to roll on top was so heavy that I collapsed into it and we decided it looked like one of the "snow goons" from Calvin and Hobbes.