Florence Peak (5508')
Mt. Rainier National Park's Florence Peak (5508') was #66 on the 100 peaks list for me. The Boundary Trail (Carbon River entrance) was in nice shape all the way to the saddle on Alki Crest, and the social/climbers trail along the crest led me all the way to the false summit. An easy scramble deposited me on the summit proper. May 26th, 2023 had me only stepping on a few very short sections of snow. I mistakenly figured that hitting Sweet Peak on the way back would be easy, but my attempt to reach the saddle leading to that lower wooded summit was a tangled mess of mossy rocks, snow, slide Alder and Devils Club. Surmising that perhaps I wasn't taking the best approach to Sweet, I elected to turn around an save that for another day. NOTE: I experimented with recording this trip in GoPro’s Superview mode…that won’t happen again.