Mount Rainier is over 14 thousand feet high but it looks bigger because it is isolated from any other big mountain – this is the view from the NW as I drove home from a day playing in the snow
South of Rainier is the rim of a massive (and very old) caldera called the Tatoosh – this photo was taken from “The Castle”. You are looking down on the Paradise Trailhead (including a large hotel) at 5000’
A quarter to 7 in the morning on an early September day and there are about 20 people visible on the final switchbacks below the summit. I did the climb in early July, we were on the summit at 6 in the morning
