Upper Paradise Meadows

[AlanLichty]

@murali asked me about places above the Paradise Inn area where you could shoot wildflowers with a view of Mt. Rainier. I suggested the area at the upper end of the Deadhorse Creek Trail. Beyond that point in the trails above Paradise Inn the patches of wildflowers pretty much disappear. I was looking through images from the last time I was up there and found a set of 3 frames taken as a panorama sequence using the shift function of a 24mm TS-E lens that I had never processed so I decided to go ahead and process the view. Click through for a much more detailed view.

C&C always welcome.

 

[murali]

@AlanLichty Thanks for your guidance. Hope to be at this point Tue morning. Pano is a terrific idea. Never occurred to me. Will keep this in mind.

 

[AlanLichty]

@AlanLichty Thanks for your guidance. Hope to be at this point Tue morning. Pano is a terrific idea. Never occurred to me. Will keep this in mind.

Thanks Murali - there are more wildflowers visible for foreground images below this point on the trails. I did hike farther up the trails than this spot but this spot was pretty much the end of the blooms as you head farther up the mountain slopes. This is roughly the 6400' level.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

The pano works really well. The skyline trail past Edith creek is also a good place for wild flowers with rainier as a backdrop. Lower Tipsoo is also a nice location for wild flowers.

 

[AlanLichty]

The pano works really well. The skyline trail past Edith creek is also a good place for wild flowers with rainier as a backdrop. Lower Tipsoo is also a nice location for wild flowers.

Thanks Jameel - I did get some nice wildflower shots up past Edith Creek on this same trip but I had some nasty wildfire smoke that ruined the view of Mt. Rainier and anything beyond the blooms on the day I was up that trail. There are more flowers all over the slopes at lower elevations than the shot above - that was pretty much the upper limit of the blooms.