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Mount Rainier

[ rey-neer, ruh-, rey-neer ]

Mount Rainier

  1. Volcanic peak ( see volcano ) in southwestern Washington .


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Over 16 years, he also ran 50-plus rescue missions as pilot-in-command on Washington’s Mount Rainier.

At the Crystal Mountain Resort near Mount Rainier in Washington state, Kim Haft of the ski patrol has worked with Darwin, a 9-year-old Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever, since he was eight weeks old.

Prime wolf habitat in the protected areas around Mount Rainier and Olympic National Park, far to the west, so far remains empty.

When a groups of friends in their twenties set out to climb Mount Rainier, they felt like they were ready for anything.

Back in 2014, I was entertained by the idea of giving a negative review tobecause I had thus far been pretty impressed with things like the Grand Canyon and Mount Rainier.

Mount Rainier is noted in Farnham's Travels, our volume xxix, p. 33, note 30.

Many other delightful excursions are open to one who pitches his tent in the alpine meadows on the south side of Mount Rainier.

That Mount Rainier should still retain so much of its internal heat is not surprising in view of the recency of its eruptions.

Within the belt the annual addition of snow to the ice fields is greater than anywhere else on Mount Rainier.

It lies in lava and other volcanic rocks, to be sure, but these are merely spreading layers of the cone of Mount Rainier.

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