Nice. Sometimes that 'mostly cloudy' day can look good.

I'm almost always there in the morning, so I'd miss this.

I’m typing this ironically after calling in my refill request at CVS <face palm>. Our prescription is Vyvanse, also an ADHD medication. My partner, myself & daughter take it.

I will say this, Bartell’s has been worse than CVS in our experience. Vyvanse shows up on the CVS app and online but I’m not able to order the refill from there. Have to go in-person or call.

I had NO idea that there were more than 5 dormant volcanoes here. I make my students name the five (Baker, Rainier, Adams, St. Helens, and Glacier Peak). I’ve been schooled. Nice work!

Where was this taken?!

Most likely:

• your kid’s prescriber is OK with 3mo fills at one time

• your prescriber may only do 1mo at a time due to their personal policy, and/or may be restricted to that by clinic policy

And:

• your husband’s schedule V is less restricted by the DEA, it can be sent to a pharmacy with refills just like a standard prescription, except limited to a total of 6 months at a time instead of 12 months for unscheduled drugs. Schedule II prescriptions cannot be sent with refills per DEA so your prescriber has to send a fresh one every time it is needed, OR can send up to 3 individual 30-day prescriptions at a time

• as far as I know pharmacies will not/cannot automatically fill your schedule II drug each month, this is likely for multiple reasons but one being that each month requires activating a fresh prescription in contrast to your husband’s, where one prescription is sent with 5 refills every 6 months that can be set to automatically fill in the system.

• you as the patient will have to contact your prescriber for new prescriptions. That’s just how it is.

• doctors do have leeway, within the laws I’ve sorta summarized above, to do what they feel is appropriate. This may be by having a personal, broad policy to only do one-month per prescription as I stated earlier; or they may decide on a case basis that an individual is too high risk to give a full 3 months at a time. The latter being because if I send in three one month prescriptions for you, then find out you’re abusing them, diverting/selling, etc. then I can contact the pharmacy and cancel the remaining ones.

In short, nothing you’ve described is anyone doing anything wrong, even though it’s a pain in your ass.

Man, the north cascades are something special. Just something you’ve gotta love about the winding mountain highway that is 20. Mornings here are spectacular. Thanks for sharing and taking me back.

Welcome! How does it feel?

Beautiful shot! Frameworthy!

St. Helens was an unreal experience for me. looked like the eruption took place only the day before, and yet it had been over 30 years by that point. great trip, minus all the hypothermia and fading from consciousness

Stunning

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Looking forward to Mt Rainier. Btw good job

Copy paste error on the last two. West Crater is 4131 ft.

My first serious snow was driving up to Paradise on Mt Rainier in winter. The snow was 50 feet deep, and driving the road was like being in a 50' deep canyon. The access to the bathrooms from the parking lot was through an arched corrugated steel tunnel under the snow. Just amazing :). [Edit] Lived near Olympia, about a 3 hour drive to Mt Rainier.

Gorgeous!

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I would add for Mt Rainier that with its 36 glaciers, it is the most glaciated peak in all the lower 48 states.

I'll second this. It always rains here, and the sun never comes out. You can't believe those picture-postcard images of the Pacific Northwest, they probably were shot in New Zealand or somewhere else where the sun actually shines on beautiful blue water and the mountains glisten with new snow. Yeah that's the ticket, those pictures are made with AI or something. So, yeah, don't come here!!!

Before Mt St Helens blew, Glacier Peak was listed as the most likely to erupt next. By the way, have climbed all of the Cascade volcanoes over the years. Glacier Peak is about the size of Mt Baker, and is beautiful. Just very very deep in the Cascades and can be seen from only one highway (Highway 20 way up north). One of the glaciers that carved out Lake Chelan came from Glacier Peak :).

I don't know how old you are :), but in 1975, a steam fumarole started shooting steam straight up 1,000 feet out of Sherman Crater at the summit of Mt Baker. It lasted about 10 years, and then died out. In the early 1980s, I was part of a climbing party that climbed up to Mt Baker then, and we rappelled down into Sherman Crater where the fumarole was coming from. It came out of a 4 inch diameter hole and roared like a freight train and shot straight up 1,000 feet. We could walk right up to it. The area around the hole was saturated with yellow sulfur. In addition, the heat had melted out giant caverns under the ice cap in Sherman crater, making ice caves. We spent about an hour exploring them, but they were way bigger than we had time for. The entrance was about 5 feet high and 10 feet wide. Shortly inside, the passage forked. We took the left fork and ended up in a gigantic room the size of a football field with a very high ceiling. Amazing. I am sure after the fumarole stopped, that the caves vanished and were again replaced with solid ice, which is how it is today. So...that's what we were doing up there when you were seven years old :). I am now 78, and by the way still climbing mountains :).

And this is what you do when you’re bored? Must be something to see when you’re inspired!!

All of the cascades were at one point active volcanoes! When you have an oceanic tectonic plate subducting under a continental tectonic plate then you will get a volcanic mountain range. Washington State is geologically very interesting!

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It means I never stopped anywhere to do anything, but I was in the state.

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