Mount Rainier National Park: Shriner Peak Lookout
This 8.2-mile out-and-back is rarely hiked. If your legs can take a stiff, 3,434-foot climb, the payoff is best-in-show vistas of Rainier and its neighbors.
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Mount Rainier National Park: Ranger Falls via Carbon River RoadExplore the once-bustling Carbon River Road by foot on this 11.2-mile hike that winds through mossy forest and visits a multi-tiered waterfall in Mount Rainier National Park.
Mount Rainier National Park: Tatoosh RangeThis 8-mile backcountry trek serves up two mountain lakes, intimate views of Mount Rainier, and some off-trail scrambles in the Tatoosh Range. Mount Rainier National Park: Shriner Peak LookoutThis 8.2-mile out-and-back is rarely hiked. If your legs can take a stiff, 3,434-foot climb, the payoff is best-in-show vistas of Rainier and its neighbors. |
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Readers' Choice 2012: Top 3 - West HikesThe region's best picks from our top field correspondent, who's notched more than 1,800 trail miles throughout the West and mapped 116 trips. Rainier's Reigning ChampGeorge Dunn, co-owner of International Mountain Guides, recalls personal adventures and gives tips about climbing Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier: Thunder on the MountainTwo years after hurricane-force winds and rain ravaged hundreds of miles of trail in Mt. Rainier National Park, the true damage is finally becoming clear. And what it's telling scientists is alarming: Bigger, more frequent–and more destructive–storms may be coming. |
America's 10 Most Dangerous Hikes - Muir Snowfield, Mt. Rainier, WAWhere winter strikes year-round May Close-to-Home HikesOur map team has been hard at work plotting the coolest hikes. Check out May's selections here. Backpacker's Readers' Choice Awards 2008America's 100 Best Hikes–chosen by you. |
November 2008 Reader PhotosThis month our readers found sun in Sedona, Arizona and snow and ice on Rainier–plus everything in between. |
Editors' Choice Snow Award 2012: Sierra Designs Tov and L.L. Bean Ultralite 850Gear Editor Kristin Hostetter explains the new innovations in down insulation technology |
Editors' Choice Snow Award 2012: Vasque Snow Junkie UD BootsStaff Photographer Ben Fullerton reviews the lightweight Snow Junkie boots from Vasque |
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