Snow shoes

Snow shoes would have been good, as we spent most of the day yesterday tramping through snow on the Mount Rainier glacier! The scenery was amazing, a mixture of snow fields, forest and alpine flowers. It was still really warm, and we'd set off just in t-shirts - went past a few people with full on packs, gaiters and snow shoes though!

I was pretty darn chuffed to have spent two nights in the cutest tree house ever. It had swing doors into a little glade and a ladder up to a tiny room. Very very cool :-)

En route to Mount Rainier we stopped off at the Mount St Helen's visitor centre. There waz some amazing footage of the 1980 eruption - it sent an ash cloud 15 miles up, which had spread around the world within 2 weeks. You can see the before and after pictures, showing how a massive chunk of the volcano just blew up, leaving a huge crater and causing floods and destruction for miles around.