What a beauty of a morning...Mount Rainier

[easychoice]

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[classof56]

1. What a gorgeous scene!

Brings peace to my somewhat-troubled soul this last morning of July. Many thanks!

[easychoice]

2. May peace be with you always.

I hope this eases your troubles...Life really is wonderful...

[marble falls]

3. Life is good.

[Aristus]

4. My homeward commute is eastward from Tacoma to Puyallup.

I love seeing the mountain in the pink evening light.

I love living here...

[easychoice]

5. I especially love when we have a real summer...

total bliss...

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Wow!

We used to go camping on Mt. Rainier. I remember that it rained a lot. Our whole campsite would be soggy.

Thank you for posting that picture.

[easychoice]

7. You are sooo welcome

I know soggy very well.Fly fishing the peninsula will cause one to grow feathers.LOL

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. I was a little kid then.

There were these really big snails with no shells. I got fascinated with and started off down the campground trail counting them. And got lost. I just kept walking in circles. And it was so wet out there that morning. Everything in the forest was just dripping.

I'm from Spokane and my father grew up in N. Idaho.

[easychoice]

9. snails without shells are slugs.

Idaho and Spokane have their moments the inhabitants are a little too toxic for me though.I find they really hate it when I start laughing at them.Then they get angry and I laugh more.lol.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. My family lives in Spokane.

I love it there. I love the pine trees and the way the air feels. I grew up right on the Spokane River.

Can't speak for anyone else but my family are all pretty liberal.

[easychoice]

11. I love the Yakima River

I seem to be able to find all the religious republicans where ever I go.I do have some good buddies in Pullman.There are nice liberal folks everywhere one only needs to look.

[leftyladyfrommo]

32. I live in the Bible Belt

so the people in the NW don't seem very religiously energetic to me.

We not only have the hard core Southern Baptists here but now we have the Mormons coming on super strong. They just built a temple here and I see their missionaries everywhere.

[easychoice]

33. Heh,Well here they seem to get snubbed if they start

But I have spent time in Marysville,Skidmore,Hopkins,Conception Junction and Bedford Iowa.Mostly baptists and Masons around there.Taylor County Iowa is owned by Masons for sure.Mormons are in your face anywhere you go,really pushy.At least to me they come off that way.Another thing is that church is a large part of rural social life.I mean where do the peeps in Hopkins,Mo. go to visit in their community? Yup,church.

[leftyladyfrommo]

34. I lived in Salt Lake for about 6 years

and went to the UofU.

Those Mormon missionaries are just kids like any other kids that age. All the boys are supposed to graduate from HS and then go on a mission. They are trained for years and learn other languages. Mormons have a great language program at BYU. I always feel sorry for them and I'm always nice to them. Poor kids. Have to spend 2 years going door to door getting cursed at. I imagine they are so glad to get home they can't stand it.

The other day I saw three of them headed right into one of the worst parts of KC - a very dangerous part. I hope they made it out alive.

In Salt Lake they come in 3's instead of 2's.

[jimlup]

12. I will never again be able to look at Rainier the same way

This summer one of my former guides Matt Hegemon and his team of 1 assistant guide and 3 clients were killed this spring while ascending the Liberty Ridge route. I didn't know Matt well but he was my lead guide for a 2009 climb up the Kautz glacier route. I will think of Matt every time I see an image of Mt. Rainier.

[easychoice]

13. I mourn your loss,Mother Nature is a harsh tutor...

I have a boat,she has had me workin more than once.

[Wounded Bear]

14. I grew up able to see that mountain from my front porch...

After 30 years in Southern California, it was one of the reasons I came home. That and some real weather.

[easychoice]

16. November is coming so I am enjoying every second of the nice part.

The weather here has it's own texture that's for sure.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. What a beautiful and tranquil scene, my dear easychoice...

Thank you for giving it to us.

[easychoice]

17. Thank You Peggy,Use the tranquility to heal.

my best wishes for you and your shoulder.Heal soonest!

[lovemydog]

18. Great photo easychoice.

Thanks for sharing. Have a great day!

[easychoice]

20. thanks for the compliment,I appreciate it

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I will try to live up to your wishes and have a great day.

[magical thyme]

19. beautiful...

so peaceful. Must be gorgeous irl...

[easychoice]

21. gorgeous it is

and so nice when it is sunny.

[Terra Alta]

22. such a beautiful mountain.

Would love to see it in person some day.

[easychoice]

24. It is awesome...

Here ya go!! Mount Rainier in all its glory:

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x5490b6130c900017:0xa58f254ab1ea64b8!2m5!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i100!3m1!7e1!4shttp://www.panoramio.com/photo/92507551!5scrystal+mountain+resort+-+Google+Search&sa=X&ei=F-3aU6TmC5TfoATVk4LQCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CH4QoiowDQ

[mackerel]

23. Now that is fecking gorgeous!

[easychoice]

25. Yeah,early morning,big cuppa jo,laughing gulls...

Serendipity...

[HeiressofBickworth]

26. About once a month I drive south on I-5 to Olympia to visit a friend.

There is a curve in the road, just before South Center, where Mt. Rainier seems to sit right in front of you and is so close you think you could touch it. When there are no clouds, it is one of the most spectacular sights of the mountain in this area. The other one is seeing the mountain from the deck of a ferry as it crosses Puget Sound on a nice clear day. Thanks for posting such lovely pictures!!

[easychoice]

28. It was just too beautiful to pass up...

The center of the span on the first ave. bridge has the same view as I5/Tukwila...Just outrageous.

[Arugula Latte]

27. The Northwest in summer ... can't beat it.

Glad I settled up here.

[easychoice]

29. I have lived a lot of places I can live anywhere.I choose here.

It is just too perfect when the sun is out.

[Arugula Latte]

30. Me too.

I've lived around the country, including in what many would consider the "ideal" climate in California, but I realized I'm not a desert or semi-desert type of person. I like my green, my giant trees, my shade canopy, my rain, my rivers and lakes, my ferns, my moss, my moisture...and then my reward of summer.

[easychoice]

31. Yeah,what you said!

Especially the reward part !!!
If it gets too gray I can sneak off to cabo for a week in January.

[pinboy3niner]

35. We had a view of it during Basic and AIT at Ft. Lewis

Of course, the spectacular view is not necessarily what Army recruits focus on. You might appreciate the snippet of a basic training cadence I remember: "All we got is rocks and rain."

[easychoice]

36. "All we got is rocks and rain."

Sometimes in the winter it can seem that way.
Olympic National Forest is really rocky and drippy.
My wife was from Louisiana, I took her Fly Fishing on the Ho river before we got married.It was cold,windy and rainy all week.
We fished the Bitterroot after that,lol.She was a pretty good camp buddy just not rainy and windy good.lol.