Diary 2/5

Recovering from vacation.  Cleaning up for Super Bowl party tomorrow.  Gonna make some chili.  I have to say, Mt. Rainier, at some 14,000 feet tall was beautiful, but everywhere were indications of how small a part humans play in the progression of geology in the area.  Many floods including the same one we had here a couple weeks ago, make for destruction of river beds, uprooted trees, and in some cases roads and homes.  There were signs about earthquakes and the dangers of a not so extinct volcano.