Tacoma Narrows and Mount Rainier, May 12, 2001

 

I headed south from Bellevue down to the lower end of Lake Washington at Renton, and Boeing...

 

Then on down to Tacoma at the south end of Puget Sound... about 35 miles south of Seattle...

 

       

 

Just beyond Tacoma, approaching and crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...

 

On the Gig Harbor side of the Narrows... backyard views...

 

       

 

Links to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster of 1940:

 

http://www.tacomanarrowsbridge.com

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/tacoma3.html

 

Down to the bottom...

 

       

 

       

 

 

 

Debris from the 1940 collapse is still visible on the shore below the bridge...

 

       

 

The climb back up...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)

 

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/Connections/connections3.htm

 

Gig Harbor... lunch...

 

       

 

 

 

Back across the Tacoma Narrows...

 

     

 

From the Tacoma Narrows I drove back through Tacoma and then southeast for a dozen or so miles to the Puyallup Fair Grounds where an RV and camping show was taking place...

 

After a walkthrough at the RV show I continued toward the southeast, toward Mount Rainier National Park...

 

       

 

   

 

Up through the moon roof...

 

     

 

From sea level at the Tacoma Narrows to not far below the 14,000 foot peak of Mount Rainier in the space of a few hours...

 

And at this spring, deep within the forest, I stopped for a while...

 

I parked near this spot and hiked up what looked like a horse trail for a couple of miles...