This is just a small post of our drive from Mt. Rainier in Washington to Yosemite National Park in California. We Camped out the night after Rainier near Hood River, OR. The town of Hood River is very nice. It is a small outdoors town with a great pizza shop. Since we just climbed Rainier, we had to order the "Volcano" pizza. Our camp site that night was very easy to get to, only about 40 yards from the Interstate! We were tired enough that the sound of the passing cars didnt effect our sleep too much; however, we soon realized our sleep would be interupted by freight trains rumbling through the campsite all throughout the night.
It was amazing what we could sleep through after climbing a 14,000 foot glaciated peak. The next morning we headed into Portland, OR to post up the Blog and Pics of our Mt. Rainier climb. Once that was taken care of we drove out to the Oregon Coast and camped out near the beach for the night. This time we only had the sound of the ocean to help put us to sleep and we even got to take showers in the morning! From the coast we continued our drive south and met up with Hatchback's friend in Medford, OR for lunch. We also had to pick up some climbing ropes that were shipped to him. We stuffed our faces with as much all you can eat pasta, salad, and breadsticks we could at the Olive Garden. (Hatchback hooked it up with a gift card)
Since we ate so much at lunch there was no way any of us could handle eating dinner that night. We continued our drive through Oregon and made our way through California as well. We stopped by Mt. Shasta to snap a few pics and moved along. We drove into the night until we got as close to Yosemite as we could, found a campground, set up the tent, crawled into our sleeping bags and prepared ourselves as best we could for the Yosemite Marathon to come!
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