The Indians of the Pacific Northwest held in awe the snowcapped volcanoes of the Cascade Range. Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, Mount Saint Helens, and Mount Hood, with their looming presence on the horizon, frequent cloud caps, rumbling avalanches, and terrifying eruptions, inspired numerous legends about the spirits that were thought to inhabit them. The Indians' legends told of fiery eruptions in the distant past, of vicious feuds when the mountains hurled rocks at one another, of a great flood when all the lowlands were inundated, killing all creatures except the pure ones which climbed to the mountain tops and ascended ropes of arrows into the sky. In the Indians' view, humans offended the mountain spirits at their peril.
Every time I fly out of Seattle I am awed by this huge rock poking out the top of the clouds.
One of these days I will have to visit it for fun!
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That is a view that most people don't get....cool.
I saw a documentary once about Ranier. If it blows, Seattle is in very bad way.....
For some reason I think that would make me more nervous than the potential for earthquakes or forest fires....
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