![\"DSC01547](\"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSC01547-Custom.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nA few miles down the road the fog lifted to gorgeous blue skies. Taking the exit to Black Diamond, where one can apparently get good views of Mt Rainier I saw a sign to Snoqualmie Falls<\/a>, which I followed despite the increasingly anxious request by the SatNav to do a U-Turn.<\/p>\n I eventually found the Falls, which were amazing. They’re about 80 meters high and even now with not much water going over them were pretty impressive. Went for a hike down to the bottom too, but I’ll have to come back in the afternoon as the light was all wrong for pictures.<\/p>\n Eventually made it to Mt Rainier, silly GPS took me on a “faster” route which ended up being quite congested, but that didn’t matter once I got on the Longmire road. Fantastic drive, will need to come back with a bike someday! But when I got closer I got a nasty surprise – $20 entrance fee to the National Park, and the road was only open for another 6 miles without snowchains. So muxh for roads being open.. ohwell, turned around and stopped at the Copper Creek Inn<\/a> for a coffee and their world-famous blackberry pie (which, tbh, was merely ok. The coffee was good though!).<\/p>\n After that it was too late to go past the Falls again – by the time I’d get there it would be dark. So instead I headed back to the Hotel, although taking scenic routes instead of the GPS-favoured highways. Shame half the drive was in the dark.. still, found some really fun roads! I’ll have to see if I can get the GPS tracks out of the car..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drive to Mt Rainier and Snoqualmie Falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Back on the road I reached Black Diamond and even found the Bakery that someone recommended on the internet, where I ordered a Shrimp Louie (shrimp salad) for lunch. Unfortunately again the light is wrong for Mt Rainier, so I’ll have to come back for afternoon tea!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n