MOUNT RAINIER 



made no record of their discoveries. It is virgin ground 

 to the geologist and geographer. Distant views sug- 

 gest that the Tattoosh Mountains have been sculp- 

 tured from a plateau, probably an upraised peneplain 

 in which there existed a great mass of igneous rock 

 rounded by less resistant Tertiary sediments. The 

 softer rocks have been removed, leaving the harder and 

 more resistant ones in bold relief, to become sculp- 

 tured by rain and frost into a multitude of angular 

 peaks. This attractive, and as yet unstudied, group 

 of peaks is in plain view from Paradise Park, and may 

 be easily reached from there by a single day's tramp. 

 Many other delightful excursions are open to one who 

 pitches his tent in the alpine meadows on the south 

 side of Mount Rainier. 



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