Moraine Park-Mystic Lake

Today we went from Mystic camp to Dick Creek Camp for an easy day. I think we broke camp around 8:00 and headed up to mystic for some photos, god that's a beautiful lake and in the daylight so many sandy shores for getting in. Flowers are peaked so get here soon for the show. Lots of bear activity but we didn't see one in our short visit here. On to Moraine park which i've read about for years! The hike up out of Mystic just kept getting better view of Rainier from new angles i've never seen! I was so happy! Flowers marmots nice trail. Then we started the decend into moraine park and it was beautiful but very BUGGY, ekkk! We tried to have a snack but had to keep moving as we ate. Flowers weren't as dominate in this area. Terraine kept changing each mile was something new. Talked to a few people, i lost a pinwheel somewhere in this stretch of trail, actually i lost both and recovered one from Craig great guy who knew me from this site tracked me down at Dick Creek camp. Thanks Craig, at least i still have one pinwheel left. Whomever finds the other one have fun with it! Dick creek camp came quickly and we set up in the best spot #1 around 1:00 and relaxed and chatted the rest of the day. Tomorrow we head down to carbon.