The annual camping trip to Rimrock area (between White Pass and Yakima) is supposed to herald the beginning of mountain bike season. However, we usualy go early enough that the trails are still under snow and the weather is crummy. And that's precisely what we did this year too.
The true purpose of Rimrock is to get together with a group of wonderful friends, catch up, hunt morels, hang out, hang loose, and have our pores infused by campfire smoke by the end of the weekend.
We actually did that twice this year. First in May, just before Memorial Day weekend and again in June, the second weekend in June.
The first weekend was predictably rainy but we managed to find a lot of morels and accomplish the rest of the items on the "purpose of Rimrock" list. The second weekend was much nicer and most of us got in a mountain bike ride, at least up the fire road until we hit snow (about 4 miles up). Once we did that, we accomplished the remainder on our list.
The pictures are from the first weekend. For some reason I didn't dig out my camera on the second trip even though the weather was suitable for sunning and other warm weather activities. Still, you get the idea from the pictures I did take.