Mountain Fever: Historic Conquests of RainierA history of the discovery, exploration, and great early climbs of one of the Pacific Northwest's highest peaks. |
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... mountain climbing to the point where she began that series of feature articles in Every Sunday and Tacomian - articles which would bring the mountain ... climbers descended to Camp Muir ? They pro- vide just the anticlimax with which to close ...
... mountain climbing to the point where she began that series of feature articles in Every Sunday and Tacomian - articles which would bring the mountain ... climbers descended to Camp Muir ? They pro- vide just the anticlimax with which to close ...
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... mountain climbers . " From there they passed around the rim to the icy summit knoll , which was found unsuitable for planting the flagpole . A better spot was found thirty feet below , and there they were able to pick out a hole two ...
... mountain climbers . " From there they passed around the rim to the icy summit knoll , which was found unsuitable for planting the flagpole . A better spot was found thirty feet below , and there they were able to pick out a hole two ...
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... climbers . As a result , the first detachment did not reach the crater rim ... mountain climbing had become but a means to an end measurement of the height ... mountain , obtaining with it , a summit observation of 17.708 inches of ...
... climbers . As a result , the first detachment did not reach the crater rim ... mountain climbing had become but a means to an end measurement of the height ... mountain , obtaining with it , a summit observation of 17.708 inches of ...
Contents
Conquest of the Heights 185870 | 29 |
Pearl of Great Price 189192 | 119 |
Men of the Mountain 189394 | 149 |
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alpenstock ascent of Mount August August 17 August 23 Bailey Willis base camp Bayley Bear Prairie blankets Camp Muir Carbon Glacier Cascades Clouds Cowlitz Cowlitz Glacier crater Creek crevasse crossing descend E. S. Ingraham east elevation Emmons encampment Fay Fuller feet Fobes George Gibraltar Gibraltar route Hazard Stevens hereafter without citation high camp horses Indian Henry's James Longmire July Kautz ledge miles morning Mount Rainier Mount Rainier National Mount Tacoma mountain climbers mountain was approached night Nisqually River North Peak o'clock Olympia Oregon P. B. Van Trump Pacific Forest Reserve pack Paradise Park Paradise Valley party passed Plummer Puget Sound Puyallup Puyallup River Rainier National Park reach the summit returned ridge road rocks Seattle September September 18 slope Sluiskin snow soon stream Tacoma Every Sunday Tacoma Ledger Tacomian Tolmie took trip Washington Alpine Club Yakima Yelm Yelm trail
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Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service Ethan Carr Limited preview - 1999 |