Packwood

No doubt about it, little Packwood is the Center of the Universe.  I brought back a map from one of the local advertising newspapers that shows Mt. Rainier up at the top, Mt. St. Helen's in roughly the middle, the Columbia River rushing along the bottom .....   What a lovely place to stay.

Bill took full advantage of the location, departing at ungodly early hours to get on a trail that invited him.  He is developing a theory that maybe it's hiking that gets his foot to get sore -- not a pleasant theory.  He went to Packwood Lake, Glacier Lake, and Tongue Mountain, on different days of course, and I ate chocolate and watched the resident elk.  Charley, One-Prong, Sam, Sally ... and they had three kids in the herd this year.

Sorry, I don't feel organized enough to get a photo freed up and onto this page to show you today, altho we took a couple of Charley.