Our World – Mount Rainier

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Mount Rainier is hard for me to get my head around. It is an incredible (to this flatlander) 14,410 feet tall.

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The weather at the top is much different than the weather at the bottom. In fact I think it makes its own weather.

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Much of the time you can’t even see the top.

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Then it clears off. It is very majestic.

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It has glaciers year round.

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That feed incredible waterfalls.

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And Rivers, this one didn’t look like much but you should have heard its roar from way above the canyon.

Aside from the fact that it is not an extinct volcano, the mountain seems alive. It is dangerous also. About three people a year die in mountaineering accidents on the mountain.

Aren’t you glad we have our National Parks? I am.

Our World Tuesday

17 thoughts on “Our World – Mount Rainier

  1. Sylvia K

    These are fantastic captures of Mt. Rainier and it is an awesome mountain isn’t it!! I’m so glad you got to enjoy so much of the northwest on your visit to this lovely, wonderful city!! Have a great week!!

  2. EG CameraGirl

    National parks are treasures! I heartily believe in them and wish all Americans and Canadians knew how lucky we are to have so much land saved for us and future generations.

  3. Gaelyn

    Your images truly capture the spirit of Mt Rainier, and in many moods as mountains do make their own weather. How deep is that canyon?

    I LOVE National Parks! But of course. 😉

  4. Leedslass

    I’m in total agreement with you re. National Parks – they’re wonderful. I live within thirty miles of the Lakeland National Park – magnificent lakes and countryside and so unspoiled. Your Mount Rainier is much more spectacular for height etc. but I think all National Parks have their own beauty.

  5. Janie

    Mount Rainier is a beautiful place. My boys have climbed it several times from different routes. Why anyone would want to climb over all that ice and snow, I don’t know, and I always worry when they’re on the mountain. I prefer to look from a nice safe unglaciered distance!
    Yes, we’re lucky in the U.S. to have so many beautiful national parks.

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