What's up, everyone. Kristin here with "Be My Travel Muse," and today we are
exploring Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. We're trying to see as much as we can within
a 48-hour period and I don't know a lot of you out there are gonna be in this situation
too. So, let's hop in the car and have a little adventure. This is 48 hours in Mount Rainier
National Park.
Buddy, there's so many cars coming this way leaving the park, but I really like going
on an opposite schedule where I go on the sunset and sunrise hikes because I don't know
why no one does that, but it's when the lighting is the best, it's when I get it to myself.
So, that's what we're doing now.
It's a beautiful trail, but sometimes hiking in national parks reminds me of why I don't like hiking
in national parks. People are so badly behaved. Oh, people. We'll never understand some people.
The sign is literally there and then they're taking their kids over there, teaching them
to go off-trail. It's awesome. Now, it's getting a bit later in the day and we're getting a
bit farther on the trail, so away from where the crowds are and we're getting such beautiful
pictures. It's so pretty here and there's so many marmots and goats. So many friends,
all my friends. My only friends.
Now, what do you think of the
first hike in Washington?
Man: That's a question for you.
Kristin: Oh, you've hiked here before. Oh, man.
Man: No. Well, in Washington I have.
Kristin: Oh, okay. Well, my answer is we really started with an amazing hike. It's so beautiful.
It's a question for me. It's fine. I'm the newb here, but this is stunning first hike
in Mount Rainier and...
Man: It's beautiful.
Kristin: See you bright and early tomorrow because we're doing a sunrise hike.
Good morning. Got up at about 5:00 this morning to see the sunrise on this lake. It's called
Reflection Lake. I don't think we're gonna see the reflection of Mount Rainier, but I
think that's the gamble you take in Washington trying to see anything. It's really cool though.
The mist is cool anyway. That is where the sun should be rising. Probably is rising.
Oh, we got frizzy hair. We got lucky Mount Rainier came out to play, and now we're going
on another little short hike to Comet Falls. Yes.
Here we are. Not bad.
It's really a good plan to get here early like we did right after the sunrise, came here and hiked this,
but now I am so hungry. I'm so hungry. It's breakfast burrito time.
Some very narrow stairs. Very, very narrow indeed. Oop, watch your head.
Man: They're against the back. It's logistically tricky.
Kristin: Hang out at this place called Alexander Lodge that was built in 1912 and in some ways you can tell. It's cute though.
Just took a nice long nap and now it's time for what will be our last hike in this park this time around.
Man: Until next time.
Kristin: Yes. But it ain't over yet. It's called Pinnacle Peak and it's across from
the Reflection Lake that we were at this morning. So, it's really coming full circle here.
Woman: Did you want to see a map?
Man: Yep. Oh, no thanks.
Woman: All right.
Kristin: Easy in. Sounds like my first time.
It's top on the way. Rainier has a toupee today. Oh, yes. This view is amazing though. If you didn't feel like hiking, this would
be a sweet sunset spot.
All right. We got some hiking to do.
Yeah. This trail has been stunning this whole time. So beautiful. Quite pleasant too, it's just not as crowded as the other one.
Surprise, surprise. Definitely gets a bit steep at the end.
This trail is really nice. It doesn't really
come up on all trails as one of the trails in the area. And I think that's why there's
no one else here right now. So, I can dig that to what I think is gonna be a pretty
good subset spot. So, the trail isn't maintained anymore up here, but there's a whole bunch
of, well, not a whole bunch, but there's some semi-maintained trails, so we're just sticking
to those. And it's so beautiful.
This is my favorite hike of the whole trip. Well, the Rainier trip, we just started our trip,
but it's been an amazing sunset and I'm super stoked for what's to come. So, next, we're
going to Olympic National Park and gonna go see the sunset on the coast. I'm super excited.
So, tune in next week, you'll see that. And let me know in the comments below what your
favorite part of this video was. See you then. Bye.