MOUNT RAINIER Master Plan Preliminary

COVER

PREFACE

THE REGION

THE PARK

THE PLAN

APPENDIXES

This planning publication has neither been approved or disapproved. Its purpose is to provide planning information and alternatives for further considerations and discussions, and it may undergo considerable revision.

I obtained my first grand view of the mountain in August 1867, from one of the prairies southeast of Olympia. That first true vision of the mountain, revealing so much of its glorious beauty and grandeur, its mighty and sublime form filling up nearly all of the field of direct vision, swelling up from the plain and out of the green forest till its lofty triple summit towered immeasurably above the picturesque foothills, the westering sun flooding with golden light and softening tints its lofty summit, rugged sides and far-sweeping flanks—all this impressed me so indescribably, enthused me so thoroughly, that I then and there vowed almost with fervency, that I would someday stand upon its glorious summit, if that feat were possible to human effort and endurance.

— Van Trump