The British explorer named dozens of geographical features and sites in the region, ignoring the traditions of the Indigenous ...

McLaughlin of Spring Lake, NJ, peacefully passed from ... Jim joined his 5 sons on an expedition to climb Mt. Rainier. Jim and Josephine enjoyed their tours of Europe and Asia, but his favorite ...

Friends and family are remembering David Kappel and sharing this remembrance with his community: David William Kappel died on October 4 at the age of 65. He was much too young to die. He had suffered ...

Van Lierop, a giant of Pierce County agriculture who grew flowers and bulbs for decades, died at the age of 86 on Sept. 21 in ...

Van Lierop, a giant of Pierce County agriculture who grew flowers and bulbs for decades ... The park has a lupine field that blooms with Mount Rainier in the backdrop each year.

He calls the park, which is located on the Big Island, “a fascinating paradise featuring volcanoes, rainforests, otherworldly lava fields, and exotic tropical flowers.” The two active ...

The top places to explore are fairly obvious — Mount Rainier, the Olympic National Park ... We caught sight of tiny lizards sunning themselves on rocks, and butterflies perched on flowers. We walked ...

Admire mountains, meadows, and waterfalls at Mount Rainier National Park ... Appreciate blooming flowers, gushing waterfalls, and more daylight in spring and early summer. Summers are great for hiking ...

Mt. Rainier is shorter than we all thought … 10 feet shorter. New GPS measurements measure the new peak, a rocky patch along the Southwest rim, at 14,399.6 feet. Rainier’s old ice cap peak ...