Beautiful scene, or ticking time bomb?
"They ain't done yet," says Steve Malone, a longtime researcher of Cascade volcanoes. And of the 13 major volcanoes that stretch from the Canadian border down to Northern California, many geologists agree that Mount Rainier poses the greatest threat. Here's why.
The remote mountain is also one of the Cascades' least-monitored volcanoes.
More than two dozen small earthquakes shook Rainier this past week, but there's no need to worry, say seismologists.
An RMI Expeditions guide notched 520 ascents this summer.
The Valor Memorial honors four people who died in the park while saving others.
The skier fell into a chasm on the Emmons Glacier after successfully summitting the peak.
Nick Burson, 31, and Marc McPhereson, 43—both cops in Ellensburg—summitted Adams, St. Helens, Rainier, Baker and Glacier Peak in just five days.
The 61-year-old Bellingham resident was found in a crevasse on Forbidden Peak.
The National Park Service is considering a fee hike in more than a dozen of the system's most popular parks.
The Sunrise and Mowich Lake roads are set to open Friday.
