2024-10c Family Outing to Mt. Rainier National Park, and Yakima, WA Area … [Charles’ Life-Story Series, A Photo-essay Memoir (회고록)]
On a bright and beautiful autumn day, we, three including our daughter, ventured out to see fall colors around ‘Mt. Rainier National Park’ and its surrounding areas, Naches, Yakima and Umtanum, WA. We set out driving southeast along US Hwy 410, skirting along east side of Mt. Rainier down to Yakima. From there, heading to the north we followed WA821 (instead of I-82) for about 20 miles and merged into I-90 to return home. The 20-mile stretch of WA821 through the American Indian towns, like Umtanum, is a gorgeous scenic highway along ‘Yakima River,’ and a railroad track along the other side across the river.
This year the fall colors seem to arrive in a week or two later.The white water along ‘White River’ is glacial-snow melt from the mountains.US Hwy410 curves along the mountain terrane.Cloud and snow-covered Mt. Rainier‘Roza Recreation Site,’ an Indian resort along Yakima River.At a picnic table beside the river we ate our home-prepared lunch.This area is arid and vegetations are scarce. But the Yakima River seemed to provide a perfect match with the arid environment. ‘Umtanum Recreation Site,’ another scenic Indianresort on WA821 along ‘Yakima River.’A charming footbridge that spans the Yakima River below.People were enjoying boating, fishing, and trail walking in the resort.The water along the Yakima River is shallow, slow flowing and calm. Just so beautiful and peaceful!Mother and daughter on the charming footbridge …Here, it looked best for trout fishing, and we wondered salmon swim upstream for their yearly salmon run along this river. End of Slide Show
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