I was quite sick of working in my yard and I jumped at Mark's suggestion to drive down to Whittier. It's a beautiful drive down along the inlet, to Portage, then the trip through the tunnel to Whittier. We decided to check out the Portage Pass Trail just to see if the parking mess had improved. I was delighted to see that they now have a huge parking lot. Mark has never hiked any of this trail. I have done it to the overlook several times but have never done the whole 2 miles down to Portage Lake. I knew we wouldn't even have time for that but did hope we could hike up to the overlook. Mark needed to rest a bit but we both made it to the high point where we could see the glacier and down to the lake in the distance. That is about the halfway point of the trail. Bella had to stay on her leash because there were a lot of people also on the trail. It was 75 degrees and mostly calm, which is very unusual for Whittier. Last week it was snowing there. It is usually foggy and raining or snowing. So, we picked the most perfect day ever to give it a try. Mark loved it and was so happy we had decided to hike up there. We had time to grab a nice salmon burger for lunch and catch the 6pm tunnel opening to drive back to Portage. What a spectacular place that is. Maybe next time I can get there early enough to hike all the way to the lake. But I was really happy to make it to the overlook. It's amazing up there.
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