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Mount
Rainer
Location
of sign - Dogwood Park State Route 161, three miles north of
Eatonville
Photo
taken - July 2008
Text
of sign:
Mt.
Rainier
Altitude 14,410
The Evergreen State
This
monarch of the Cascade Range has been called the Great Pyramid of
the United States. No other mountain on the continent
exceeds
Rainier in bulk of rock masses, number of glaciers (26 active) and
extent of base. Nearly all of Mt. Rainier National Park's
337
square miles belong to the mighty mountain. Geologist believe
the original peak lost 2,000 feet in a volcanic blast, creating a
crater
three miles square. Three cinder cones grew together
surrounding the crater rim, Columbia Crest the central snowy dome,
Point
Success to the South and Liberty Cap to the North. The British
explorer, Captain George Vancouver, discovered the
mountain
in 1792 and named it for a fellow officer, Peter Regnier, now
spelled Rainier.
Erected by the Washington State Highway Commission.
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