{"id":1798,"date":"2013-06-19T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2013-06-19T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:43:23","slug":"the-drive-to-mount-rainier-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2013\/06\/19\/the-drive-to-mount-rainier-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The drive to Mount Rainier National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1793\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0818.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1793\" title=\"IMGP0818\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0818-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Somewhere near Spokane, WA\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somewhere near Spokane, WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday morning we left Spokane for a two-and-a-half hour drive to Mount Rainier National Park. \u00a0Initially we drove through a lot of desert-like terrain until we crossed the mountains at White Pass and entered central\/western Washington.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1795\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0825.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1795\" title=\"IMGP0825\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0825-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"A lake in eastern WA\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lake in eastern WA along highway 212<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once we got to the &#8220;green&#8221; part of WA, the views were spectacular.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1794\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0821.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1794\" title=\"IMGP0821\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0821-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"A quick roadside stop to stretch our legs\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quick roadside stop to stretch our legs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1797\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0829.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1797\" title=\"IMGP0829\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0829-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Sign for the Clear Creek Falls Overlook\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign for the Clear Creek Falls Overlook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We stopped at a roadside turn off to see these falls. \u00a0For something that&#8217;s barely marked on the map, it was impressive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1796\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0827.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1796\" title=\"IMGP0827\" src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMGP0827-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Clear Creek Falls near White Pass in eastern WA\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clear Creek Falls near White Pass in eastern WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning we left Spokane for a two-and-a-half hour drive to Mount Rainier National Park. \u00a0Initially we drove through a lot of desert-like terrain until we crossed the mountains at White Pass and entered central\/western Washington. Once we got to the &#8220;green&#8221; part of WA, the views were spectacular. We stopped at a roadside turn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2013\/06\/19\/the-drive-to-mount-rainier-national-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The drive to Mount Rainier National Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}