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MOUNT
RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
Ron Warfield
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 978-1-58071-067-1
$12.95 
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This stunningly beautiful, oversized book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by America's leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the parks' natural and human histories.
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When the majestic Cascade Mountains arose, natural forces bestowed the Mount Rainier region with the best scenic treasures in the Pacific Northwest. The icy dome of 14,410-foot Mount Rainier stands in the middle of it all. This enormous composite volcano projects nearly two vertical miles above a sea of coniferous forest. Seen from a distance, The Mountain looks like a gigantic sun-bleached tree stump. Often cloaked in a stole of clouds, Mount Rainier seems to make its own weather. Up close, it is a wondrous world unto itself. Northwesterners live close to many mountains, but, to everyone who sees it, this is THE Mountain.
Old-growth temperate coniferous forest sweeps down from about 6000 feet on the flanks of The Mountain—forming an emerald setting for the exquisitely rough diamond that is Mount Rainier. The most luxuriant flowers to be found anywhere lie in a subalpine ring sandwiched between dense lower forest and ice on the upper mountain. Benign beauty of the noble mountain belies its tremendous potential to be the most destructive volcano in America.
My father brought me to Mount Rainier five decades ago because he thought it important that I learn firsthand what America's best idea (the National Park Service) is all about. In this paradise, I feel at peace with the world. Like all lovers of mountains, my heart still leaps when I see it. The more I learn about this magical place the more I discover myself. I've figured out that in saving it we become immortal.
Today, first-time visitor Herm and I seek the essence of this place. We're retracing the route of 19th-century explorers and climbers. Their foresight to save this mountain in the nation’s fifth national park on March 2, 1899, allows us to wander in the wilderness.
—From
the Introduction to “Mount Rainier” by Ron Warfield
MOUNT
RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
Ron Warfield
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 978-1-58071-067-1
$12.95
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