We spent Thursday and Friday this week in Mt. Rainier National Park doing a couple of short hikes and a raft trip down the Tieton River with Bob's sister Lynn and her husband David. The Tieton drains out of Rimrock Lake, just east of White Pass on SR 12. The lake serves as a reservoir to support late summer irrigation in the Yakima valley. Eleven months a year the Tieton is nothing more then a small stream, then in September they release 1500 CFS into the river and it becomes a 12-mile long class III white water river. The water was cold, but the temperature was in the 80s so we had lots of fun. (So much fun in fact that our guide got in some trouble with the boss for some of the places she took us and the raft. We had a bit of a gouge in the raft after one encounter with a rock where we got hung up for several minutes.)
Here is a link to more photo's of our trip:
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/ThumbPage.aspx?e=5229350&g=0XPF004W03
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