The national parks portfolio . ROM the Cascade Mountains in Washington rises a series of vol-canoes which once blazed across the sea like giant beacons. To-day, their fires quenched, they suggest a stalwart band of Knightsof the Ages, helmeted in snow, armored in ice, standing at paradeupon a carpet patterned gorgeously in wild flowers. Easily chief of this knightly band is Mount Rainier, a giant towering14,408 feet above tidewater in Puget Sound. Home-bound sailors far at seamend their courses from his silver summit. This mountain has a glacier system far exceeding in size and impressivebeaut
The national parks portfolio . ROM the Cascade Mountains in Washington rises a series of vol-canoes which once blazed across the sea like giant beacons. To-day, their fires quenched, they suggest a stalwart band of Knightsof the Ages, helmeted in snow, armored in ice, standing at paradeupon a carpet patterned gorgeously in wild flowers. Easily chief of this knightly band is Mount Rainier, a giant towering14,408 feet above tidewater in Puget Sound. Home-bound sailors far at seamend their courses from his silver summit. This mountain has a glacier system far exceeding in size and impressivebeauty that of any other in the United States. From its snow-covered summittwenty-eight rivers of ice pour slowly down its sides. Seen upon the map,as if from an aeroplane, one thinks of it as an enormous frozen octopus stretch-ing icy tentacles down upon every side among the rich gardens of wild flowersand splendid forests of firs and cedars Photographby Curtis & Miller ,,xt^ Above Every Curve of the Paradise Road Looms the Great White Mountain
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