"The Big Volcano" Mount Rainier National Park by zrim
Mount Rainier National Park Travel Guide: 232 reviews and 505 photos
It is hard for me to believe that it has been 17 years since I visited Mt. Rainier with my sister in 1987. This was the first national park that I truly visited (got out of the car and hiked around). If you are ever in the Seattle area and the weather breaks--I'd recommend at least a daytrip to Mt. Rainier. It is a massive mountain and the scenery changes around each corner.
Unfortunately, I was a pathetic photographer at the time, so this page will be short and sweet. I'd like to go back in July or August some year and explore the alpine lakes and meadows strewn with wildflowers.
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Rainier is the colossus of the Cascades. It is twice as high and twenty times as massive as the little 7000 footers that... more travel advice
Nisqually Glacier
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The impressive Nisqually Glacier is nearly four miles long and almost reaches the summit of Mt. Rainier where the ice... more travel advice
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Called Tahoma (big mountain) by the local Native Americans. Rainier is the most massive mountain in the lower 48. It... more travel advice
Mt. Rainier creates its own weather
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The park roads will take you up past the snow line in early summer to the Paradise Visitor Center. It is a great... more travel advice
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Did not know this was here. My instincts tend toward Olympic and N Cascades for Washington State, also another place I have never been. Still, gotta love these mountains.
What a great scenery, Phil !
never been there. only saw the peak from downtown seattle. perhaps i should go before it errupts again...
Hey, nothing wrong with your photography back then! A very interesting read on this impressive mountain!
Great pictures but some of the comments have me frightened. I'll be visiting Ranier NP this weekend. Hope the mountain doesn't choose to erupt during that time. :)
So beautiful. Living in a flat country make ever hill for us a mountain :-)
You must have been digging through your pictures and found Rainier... Ever tried Rainier Beer?