Entries filed under 'Mount Rainier'

One Version of the Center of the Universe

Here's a ridiculously beautiful view from 10,000 feet up on Mount Rainier, from photographer Scott Rinckenberger's recent ski and snowboard trip. ...

Posted by Seattle Jason on September 26, 2012 3:00 PM & Tagged Mount Rainier, Photography, Scott Rinckenberger and Snowboarding | permalink | Comments



Comin’ ‘round the Mountain: How Long Does It Take to Hike Mt. Rainier’s Wonderland Trail?

The Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier, the fifth-highest peak in the Lower 48, is a revered American footpath. At 92 miles with dozens of steep rises and falls, what's the right amount of time to take to see the sights? ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on September 13, 2012 11:45 AM & Tagged Mount Rainier, Mount Rainier National Park, Wonderland Trail, guidebooks and national parks | permalink | Comments



How Are Conditions at Mount Rainier This Summer? A Little Snowy at the Moment

On Wednesday (June 27) fellow blogger Steve T. and I took some out-of-town REI colleagues to visit Mount Rainier National Park. Many of them were seeing the park for the first time. Below I share some snapshots from our trip to: 1) Show you what late-June conditions are like in America's fifth-oldest, 18th most-visited national park (1,038,229 visitors in 2011) and 2) Share our one-day, keep-it-moving, greatest-hits tour of the park; maybe you can use it as an idea-starter for a possible ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 3, 2012 2:50 PM & Tagged Mount Rainier and national parks | permalink | Comments



A Salute to Climbing Rangers, a 'Breed Apart'

Sad news late last week of a climbing ranger's death at Mount Rainier National Park again reminds me—maybe you, too—of what I consider an outdoor fact of life: Some of the finest human beings walking this planet wear park ranger uniforms. Nick Hall, 34, in his fourth year as a climbing ranger at Rainier, died in a fall late Thursday (June 21) as he was helping evacuate injured climbers by helicopter near the summit of 14,411-foot Mount Rainier. "What Nick and his team did is really incredible ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on June 26, 2012 11:58 AM & Tagged Mount Rainier, climbing rangers, national parks, park rangers and rangers | permalink | Comments



As Rainier Prepares to Reopen, A Few Words of Appreciation for Park Rangers

Park rangers are some of the nicest people you'll meet in some of America's prettiest places. Approximately 4,000 of them will be on hand to greet and assist visitors this weekend at the country's 397 national park units, including Mount Rainier National Park, which reopens Saturday (Jan. 7) at 8 a.m. PT after being closed since the almost unimaginable events of Sunday, Jan. 1. That is the day when ranger Margaret Anderson was shot and killed by a man who failed to stop at a tire-chain ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 9, 2012 4:06 PM & Tagged Mount Rainier, national parks, park rangers and rangers | permalink | Comments