[Justus S.]

Tamanos Mtn and Governors Ridge BM(Barrier) 6566 I want to make good use of my yearly MRNP pass I bought a few weeks back. I headed back to the Sunrise area for a couple more peaks. The park was already busy at 9am with a 10-15min wait at the gate. I was glad there was still good parking right at the trhd. I made quick work of the nice, mellow trail to Owyhigh Lakes. Before reaching the lakes I headed across the valley toward Governors. Travel to the summit was easy with game trails most of the way. There is a nice meadow area about 1000ft down stream from the lake. The game trails I took head up the woods on the south of the openish area shown on USGS maps. Below the cliff bands (5800) a prominent game trail does a rising traverse to the saddle between 6333 and the summit. I did a little digging in the summit cairn and found a old pill bottle with a fragile reg paper inside. This summit has some trees near the top and there are not 360views. Still a nice place though.

Rainier Emerges

toward the pass Hwy 410

cowlitz chimneys and owyhigh lakes

old reg paper

butterfly

Rainier from governors bm

I descended down to Owyhigh Lakes and then hiked up to the turn off for the climbers path to Tamanos. By now it was full on sun on the open slopes to the summit. My pace slowed down as I tried not to overheat. At least there were some fresh blueberries at the beginning to give me a boost. July blueberries are pretty nice.

pano

rainier from hike up tamanos

cowlitz chimneys

governors and barrier

Another fun day in MRNP. I think a few more trips to the park are in order. Trip time about 9hrs, Flowers are past their prime. some other pics

new glacial lake

ice falls

busy sunrise visitor center

governors not the BM

cowlitz chimneys

middle chimney

cowlitz chimneys

shriner lo

camp schurman steamboat prow

adams