One Best Hike: Mount Rainier's Wonderland Trail. Doug Lorain

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      List of Maps

       Mount Rainier National Park Locator Map

       Wonderland Trail Overview Map

       Western Map: South Section (Longmire to Klapatche Park)

       Longmire Area (detail)

       Western Map: North Section (Klapatche Park to Mowich Lake)

       Northern Map: West Section (Mowich Lake to Mystic Lake)

       Northern Map: East Section (Mystic Lake to White River)

       Sunrise Area (detail)

       Eastern Map (White River to Box Canyon)

       Southern Map: East Section (Box Canyon to Reflection Lakes)

       Southern Map: West Section (Reflection Lakes to Longmire)

      Mount Rainier from Eagle Cliff viewpoint

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      Introduction

      “Mt. Rainier, or Tahoma (the Indian name), is the noblest of the volcanic cones extending from Lassen Butte and Mt. Shasta along the Cascade Range to Mt. Baker. … Rainier … surpasses them all in massive icy grandeur—the most majestic solitary mountain I had ever yet beheld.”

      —John Muir, Travels in Alaska, 1915

      Opposite: Indian Bar from trail up Cowlitz Divide

Mount Rainier and the Wonderland Trail

      As any Seattle area resident looking up and admiring “their” mountain can attest, John Muir, as usual, had it right. Mount Rainier is truly a majestic sight that dominates its surroundings like no other peak in the lower 48 United States. Given the СКАЧАТЬ