Mount Rainier, Washington State

Sunday, August 20, 2006

ONE LANE MOUNTAIN ROAD
















140 odd mile drive from Sonqualmie is breathtaking. There are tall evergreen trees all along the route. Red Indians called the mountain as Takhoma "big mountain". On May 8, 1792 Captain Vancouver wrote in his log ".....the round snowy mountain......I name it after my friend Rear Admiral Peter Rainier...."

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