Day 13 – Salkum, Washington to Alberton, Montana

Ms. Perrin:  "Wow what a day!!!!  The B&B we stayed at said not to miss Mt. Ranier National Park and they were right.  It took us an extra 4 hours (which put as at our next stop at 11:15 pm!) but it was well worth it!  I imagine that this is how beautiful Mt. St. Helens was before half the mountain disappeared.  As the day before, the mountain was clouded over when we first got there but it showed itself within the next couple hours.  You can’t begin to understand just how big it is from photos.  I’ve never felt so small as I did at 5,000 ft looking up at this mountain.  I can’t begin to imagine what it would be like if it blew.  Mt. St. Helens only had one glacier on it.  Mt. Ranier has somewhere around 15 to 20!  That’s a lot of melted ice!  They said that it is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America."



"Then there’s the drive up and down the other side of the park.  Holy mackrell!!  For those of you who have driven into Golden, BC through Kicking Horse Pass…..whoopdee lala!  This is much worse and without the guardrails.  I was amazed at how far the drop off was and they have signs to warn you that it is a sheer cliff.  It just goes down for thousands of feet!  And of course it’s winding along the side of the mountain and in some places, it weaves back and forth in a switchback." 

"Then there is the drive from the park to Idaho.  There’s a beautiful canyon on I-82.  The state of Washington is absolutely breathtaking.  Definitely worth the trip and probably the most impressive state that I’ve been to yet!!!"