Grove of the Patriarchs Loop — Monday, Aug. 3, 1998

Mount Rainier Area > SE - Cayuse Pass/Stevens Canyon

Mount Rainier National Park - From Box Canyon N. to the ridge, and back down the other side to Grove of the Patriarchs. Hatch! Clouds of gnats, mosquitoes, and some deer flies near even the merest puddle of water. A very few snowpatches on the ridge for water, streams flowing w/in 300 vertical feet of the ridge top.