The Mountain that was "God": Being a Little Book about the Great Peak which the Indians Called "Tacoma", But which is Officially Named "Rainier"The author, 1910 - 111 strani |
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A. H. Barnes A. W. Archer alpine altitude Asahel Curtis ascent Avalanche beautiful C. E. Cutter Caesar Carbon Glacier Cascades Charles Bedford cliff Climbing Copyright Cowlitz Cleaver Cowlitz Glacier Cowlitz Park Crater Peak crevasses Elevation of camera Elmo Pass F. A. Scott flow flowers Forest Reserve Gibraltar Gibraltar Rock glacial Goat Government Road Grand Park H. A. Towne ice stream Indian Henry's Interglacier Little Tahoma Longmire Springs Longmire's Mazamas meadows miles Mineral Lake Moraine Park National Park Nisqually canyon Nisqually Glacier North Mowich Glacier North Peak North Side Paradise Glacier Paradise Park Paradise Valley parties Peak Success Pierce County Pinnacle Peak plant Prof Puget Sound Rainier Reese's Camp ridges route S. C. Smith Seattle seen slopes Sluiskin Falls Sluiskin Mountains South Tahoma Glaciers Spray Park Stevens Glacier summit Tacoma Tahoma Fork Tatoosh Range thousand feet timber line trail trees View volcanic Wedge west side White Glacier Winthrop Glacier
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Stran 96 - Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Stran 62 - Who chiselled these mighty and picturesque masses out of a mere protuberance of the earth? And the answer was at hand. Ever young, ever mighty — with the vigor of a thousand worlds still within him — the real sculptor was even then climbing up the eastern sky.
Stran 105 - Rosa groups are in their crevasses and seracs equally striking and equally worthy of close study. We have seen nothing more beautiful in Switzerland or Tyrol, in Norway or in...
Stran 62 - ... cut out these ravines ; it was he who planted the glaciers on the mountain-slopes, thus giving gravity a plough to open out the valleys ; and it is he who, acting through the ages, will finally lay low these mighty monuments, rolling them gradually seaward, sowing the seeds of continents to be ; so that the people of an older earth may see mould spread, and corn wave over the hidden rocks which at this moment bear the weight of the Jungfrau.
Stran 84 - Above the forests," he writes, " there is a zone of the loveliest flowers, fifty miles in circuit and nearly two miles wide, so closely planted and luxurious that it seems as if nature, glad to make an open space between woods so dense and ice so deep, were economizing the precious ground and trying to see how many of her darlings she can get together in one mountain wreath — daisies, anemones...
Stran 84 - Above the forests," he writes, "there is a zone of the loveliest flowers, fifty miles in circuit and nearly two miles wide, so closely planted and luxurious that it seems as if nature, glad to make an open space between woods so dense and ice so deep, were economizing the precious ground and trying to see how many of her darlings she can get together in one mountain wreath — daisies, anemones, columbine, erythroniums, larkspurs, etc., among...
Stran 105 - The combination of ice scenery with woodland scenery of the grandest type is to be found nowhere in the Old World, unless it be in the Himalayas, and, so far as we know, nowhere else on the American continent.
Stran 84 - Of all the fire-mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest in form, has the most interesting forest cover, and, with perhaps the exception of Shasta, is the highest and most flowery. Its massive white dome rises out of its forests, like a world by itself, to a height of fourteen thousand to fifteen thousand feet.
Stran 105 - Rosa groups, are in their crevasses and serracs equally striking and equally worthy of close study. We have nothing more beautiful in Switzerland or Tyrol, in Norway or in the Pyrenees, than the Carbon river glaciers and the great Puyallup glaciers.