At 6, 400 feet, the Sunrise Area of Mount Rainier is the highest point accessible by vehicle.
He was climbing Mount Rainier with his younger daughter when he suddenly had trouble breathing.
One program, called Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases, brought me to Mike Taylor's lovely front porch in Mount Rainier, Md.
Muir fought to protect Yosemite and later Glacier Bay in Alaska, Mount Rainier in Washington and the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest in Arizona.
Spectacular Mount Rainier is an active snow-capped volcanic peak that looms large to the south, dominating the landscape when not shrouded in clouds.
Mount Rainier is also an active volcano - although there has been no activity since the 1850s and geologists say there is no imminent threat of eruption.
At 5:30 each morning, espressos in hand, they sit for an hour by a wall of windows overlooking Mount Rainier, catching up on personal stuff.
If you perform well as an apprentice, guiding on Mount Rainier is a likely assignment before heading to a peak like Aconcagua, South America's highest mountain.
They are no longer so eager to tote a 50-pound pack for a week in the Tetons, nor hoist themselves up icy Mount Rainier in Microsoft's backyard (Al Gore's recent ascent of that peak notwithstanding).
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But the perils of success are compounded by the fact that Seattleites, with forests around them and Mount Rainier down the road, have long prided themselves on being an outdoor sort of people with a good green conscience.
The trip from the west begins in Seattle at 4:40 pm with a complimentary glass of champagne, sipped while you enjoy the watery vista of Puget Sound with the snowy volcanic dome of Mount Rainier winking in the background.
Near the Carbon River entrance to the park, Sunrise offers some of the most sweeping views of Mount Rainier's peak and of Emmon's Glacier, which, at 4.3 square miles, has the largest surface area of any glacier in the contiguous United States.
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