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RAIN_000903_010.JPG: These are marmots. I remembered them from my visit here as a teenager.
RAIN_000903_021.JPG: A different type of marmot
RAIN_000903_026.JPG: This glacier's right there near the visitor center. I had brought a portable refrigerator unit with me which I left plugged in in the car and started walking up to this. The fridge was one of those that continued to suck energy from your battery even when your battery was dead so I wanted to make it back to the car quickly. But I kept on going up to the thing. Finally, I turned around and ran back to the car. I felt like an idiot.
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Wikipedia Description: Mount Rainier National Park
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Mount Rainier National Park is a United States National Park located in southeast Pierce County and northwest Lewis County in Washington state. It was established on March 2, 1899, the fifth national park in the United States. The park contains 368 square miles (953 kmē) including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,411-foot (4,392 m) stratovolcano. The mountain rises abruptly from the surrounding land with elevations in the park ranging from 1,600 feet (490 m) to over 14,000 feet (4,300 m). The highest point in the Cascade Range, around it are valleys, waterfalls, subalpine wildflower meadows, old growth forest and more than 26 glaciers. The volcano is often shrouded in clouds that dump enormous amounts of rain and snow on the peak every year and hide it from the crowds that head to the park on weekends.
Mount Rainier is circled by the Wonderland Trail and is covered by several glaciers and snowfields totaling some 35 square miles (91 kmē). Carbon Glacier is the largest glacier by volume in the continental United States, while Emmons Glacier is the largest glacier by area. About 1.3 million people visit Mount Rainier National Park each year. Mount Rainier is a popular peak for mountain climbing with some 10,000 attempts per year with approximately 25% making it to the summit.
The park contains outstanding examples of old growth forests and subalpine meadows.
History:
Ninety-seven percent of the park is preserved as wilderness under the National Wilderness Preservation System, including Clearwater Wilderness, a designation it received in 1988. It is abutted by the Tatoosh Wilderness. The park was designated a National Historic Landmark on February 18, 1997 as a showcase for the National Park Service Rustic style architecture (or parkitecture) of the 1920s and 1930s, exemplified by the Paradise Inn and a masterpiece of early NPS master planning. As an Historic Landmark district, the park was adm ...More...
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1968_WA_Rainier: WA -- Mt. Rainier Natl Park (19 photos from 1968)
2000 photos: Image quality is going to be pretty bad because these are scans of negatives and prints. They were usually taken on a Pentax ME-Super.
The scaffolding that was being used on the Washington Monument came down in March so you'll see it disappear this year.
In 2000, I took three weeks and drove 10,000 miles across country in my new Saturn station wagon -- taking the northern route through Montana and other places, arriving in San Francisco (a place I'd always wanted to visit), and then returning via a southern route. The cross-country drive meant that I took lots of pictures in a 20 different states (an annual record for me) as well as one foreign country. Too many national parks to mention here but I really wish I had been using a decent digital camera then instead of my old camera. I look back at taken maybe a dozen shots at Mount Rushmore vs what I would take today and I just sigh.
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