Do you know -
Paradise (Mt.Rainier National Park, WA) is the snowiest place on Earth
where snowfall is measured regularly
(According to the National Park Service)?
Paradise (Mt.Rainier National Park, WA) is the snowiest place on Earth
where snowfall is measured regularly
(According to the National Park Service)?
Late October
Nisqually Entrance
"Between the entrance and Longmire the road follows the north side of the Nisqually River, named for the Native American tribe that lived along its valley.
The grand old-growth forest in this area is largely made up of Douglas-fir, western hemlock, and western redcedar.
Some of these trees reach diameters exceeding 8 feet, heights over 200 feet, and ages of 700 years.
Hot forest fires and thick mud flows reset the stage for new forests to grow, and trees that die of old age often become nurse logs for new trees, giving old growth forests trees of many ages.
Hot forest fires and thick mud flows reset the stage for new forests to grow, and trees that die of old age often become nurse logs for new trees, giving old growth forests trees of many ages.
Roughly 1,000 years is the age of the oldest trees in Pacific Northwest forests.
The forest canopy here is so dense that only a few deciduous trees -- like vine maple and dogwood --
compete for the scattered sunlight that filters through, while bigleaf maple, cotton wood and red alder hug the riverbanks."
compete for the scattered sunlight that filters through, while bigleaf maple, cotton wood and red alder hug the riverbanks."
Longmire Visitor Center. Elevation 2,761 feet
Paradise. 19 miles from the entrance to the Park. Elevation 5,400 feet
Christine Falls
"From the perspective of a human lifespan the Cascade Range may seem tranquil and unchanging,
but the geologic past and future of the Pacific Northwest has been and will again be interrupted by many violent earthquake jolts and volcanic eruptions.
Mount Rainier, born in fire, torn by ice; that will be its epitaph.
As of now the fires are not dead, only sleeping, and in a possibly warming world the tooth and claw of the glaciers may diminish.
Most episodes in the creation and destruction of the volcano will never be known,
but several of the larger or more recent events have left their record in the rocks."
***Copyright 2015 TatyanaS
