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Tacoma - Perpetual Shrine of Fire And Ice
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Tacoma - Perpetual Shrine of Fire And Ice 

Page Type: Album

Image Type(s): Alpine Climbing, Hiking, Skiing, Wildlife, Flora, Informational, Scenery, Water

 

Page By: lcarreau

Created/Edited: Apr 20, 2009 / Apr 21, 2009

Object ID: 507742

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Page Score: 89.46% - 22 Votes 

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The Mountain Speaks :


"Awful Power Clad in Beauty?" (1985)




"I am Tacoma - Monarch of the Coast!

Uncounted ages heaped my shining snows;

The sun by day, by night the starry host.




Cloud-capped from Mount Pleasant (1985)




Crown me with splendor; every breeze that blows

Wafts incense to my altars; never wanes

The glory my adoring children boast.

For one with sun and sea Tacoma reigns.




Kautz Glacier near Sunset (1976)




Tacoma - the Great Snow Peak - mighty name

My dusky tribes revered when time was young!

Their God was I in avalanche and flame -



St. Andrews Lake (1982)




In grove and mead and songs my rivers sung,

As blithe they ran to make the valleys fair -

Their Shrine of Peace where no avenger came

To vex Tacoma, lord of earth and air (enraptured.)"










Living With A Volcano In Your Backyard ???


Rainier in the year 1896 (from Eagle Cliff)


Mount Rainier, an active volcano currently at rest between eruptions,
is the HIGHEST peak in the Cascade Range.

Its edifice, capped by snow and 25 glaciers,

has been built up by untold eruptions over the past 500,000 years.



It last erupted in 1894-1895, when small summit explosions were reported

by observers in the Puget Sound (PNW) cities of Seattle and Tacoma.





Indian Henry's Hunting Ground (1985)


"Last campfires never die.

And you and I, on separate ways to life's December,

Will always dream by this last campfire,

And have this mountain to remember."




Rainier's Lofty Summit Craters (in 1964)

Sources:

(1) "The Mountain That Was God" - Edna D. Protor (1911)


(2) U.S. Department of the Interior/USGS archives - (2008)


(3) Clark E. Schurman - ("The Chief") - (1955)


(4) Journey - "Wheel In The Sky" - (1978)

Images


"Shadows on the Wall"

Alpine Fashion Foozler ...

Rainier in 1896

Mirror Lake, MRNP

Shining World of Ice & Snow

History of Indian Henry

SILENT SPECTACLE

Wonderland Trail Companion

Rainier

Foreboding North Face Classic [24 years gone]

Rainier from Eagle Cliff

Visions from Hinkle Tinkle

Cloud's Kiss for Mount Rainier

...from First Mother

"Last Campfires Never Die!"


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mrhOnly You

Voted 10/10

Only Mr. Carreau could take something like Mt. Rainier and make it a little bit weird. I enjoyed it.
Posted Apr 21, 2009 11:59 am

lcarreauRe: Only You ...

Hasn't voted

Can make my world seem right.
Only you, can make my darkness bright.
Only you, and you alone,
Can thrill me like you do ... : )

Ringo Starr (1974)
Posted Apr 21, 2009 4:22 pm

Bob SihlerI concur...

Voted 10/10

This is the most interesting thing about Rainier I've ever seen on this site-- thanks for bringing something fresh to this mountain that has 1000+ images, most of them duplicates, and a pile of trip reports that say basically the same thing: "We climbed Mount Rainier and had to post this even though lots of other people have already told the same story!"

Larry, I made a slight change to this post so it would be a little less mean-spirited!
Posted Apr 27, 2009 11:17 pm

lcarreauRe: I concur...

Hasn't voted

Perfectly okay, Bob!

I refer to that as the "free speech syndrome!" Even though I'm
not an 'adminstrator' of this site, I'm ass-suming that we ALL
know what the LIMITS of our freedoms are (indeed).

Hope you're able to make it out to the 'Wild West' again SOON !!
Posted May 4, 2009 10:03 am

Mark StraubI like it!

Voted 10/10

Great album! Very interesting. It's very sad to see how much the glaciers have melted in recent years.

-Mark
Posted Apr 21, 2009 11:02 pm

lcarreauRe: I like it!

Hasn't voted

In my years spent wide-eyed in WA, I never had the chance to
visit the Paradise Ice Caves, which have since "melted out."

I was not trying to make a scientific comparison with the photos;
it's still a beautiful mountain, with the "potential" of becoming
a destructive devil at any moment. Nature will find a way ...
Posted Apr 21, 2009 11:46 pm

skunk apeNice!

Voted 10/10

Interesting Page! Love the photos, it's always a bit of a bummer to get a look back a few years and see how things have changed. bummer except for the gear!
Posted May 3, 2009 11:31 pm

lcarreauRe: Nice!

Hasn't voted

Totally agree! They've really come a long way on the gear!
Seriously, I'm still sad to hear reports of folks losing their
lives in the Wasatch, and other mountain ranges of the world.

But, we all must KEEP movin' down that long and rocky highway!

Question: Who (exactly) are the "TyeDyeTwins." Are they your
neighbors? Just curious - please take care of yourself !! : ))
Posted May 4, 2009 10:10 am

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