Muir was also personally involved in the creation of Sequoia, Mount Rainier, Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon national parks.

It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.

He also survives a recall election, with no candidate in the race against him ( candidates include Rainier Wolfcastle ( a Schwarzenegger reference ), Kent Brockman, and even Homer Simpson ) garnering the five percent necessary to force a recall.

Native tribes also developed their own names for the High Cascades and many of the smaller peaks, including " Tahoma ", the Lushootseed name for Mount Rainier ; and " Louwala-Clough ", meaning " smoking mountain " for Mount St. Helens.

Alice Heine ( February 10, 1858 – December 22, 1925 ), styled HSH The Princess of Monaco, and also The Duchess of Richelieu, was the American-born second wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, a great-grandfather of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Mount Rainier has been listed as an historic area, due to its history not only as a primary streetcar suburb of Washington, D. C., but also due to the vast number of Sears houses and Craftsman-style homes, many of which have been restored.

It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.

Rainier was also a descendant of William the Silent of Orange-Nassau, the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Empire and ancestor to the current Dutch Royal Family ; Hortense Mancini, the Duchess of Mazarin and mistress of King Charles II of England ; Gabrielle de Polignac, a favourite of Marie Antoinette ; Joan of Kent, the first Princess of Wales ; King Charles IX of Sweden ; King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway ; Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor ; Claude, Duke of Guise and several doges of Genoa.

As Prince of Monaco, Rainier was also responsible for the principality's new constitution in 1962 which significantly reduced the power of the sovereign.

Honouring the Prince on his death in 2005, a high value commemorative coin was minted with his effigy on it, the € 10 gold Prince Rainier III commemorative coin, minted also in 2005.

In 1981, Wickwire was traversing a glacier on Mount McKinley ( also known as Denali ) with a 25 year-old Mount Rainier guide named Chris Kerrebrock in the lead.

Rainier Scenic Railroad in Elbe Washington, who also have a 78 ton 3 truck on static display.

Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, also known as the Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton ( 11 December 185014 May 1922 ) was the Lanarkshire-born, Scottish-German-French great-grandmother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the fashion designer Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, the socialite and actress Princess Ira von Fürstenberg and the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Karel Schwarzenberg.

North American Pacific Rim volcanoes such as Mount Rainier, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak also draw numbers, along with Mexican giants Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl.

The Mount Rainier Format standard and SecurDisc for DVD +/- RW ( which also works on DVD-RAM, CD-R, and CD-RW ) somewhat lessens the DVD-RAM format's perceived advantage in the data integrity category, but not in the data retention or damage protection categories.

Several miles downriver from there the White River is joined by one of its main tributaries, the West Fork White River, which also originates at a glacier in Mount Rainier National Park, in this case, Winthrop Glacier.

Sick's Stadium, also known as Sick's Seattle Stadium and later as Sicks ' Stadium, was a baseball stadium located in Seattle, Washington's Rainier Valley at the corner of S. McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue S. The site was previously the location of Dugdale Park, a 1913 ballpark that was the home of the minor league Seattle Indians.

The tributary Mowich River, which also flows from glaciers on Mount Rainier, joins the Puyallup from the east.

Like the Mowich, the Carbon River also originates at a glacier on Mount Rainier ( the Carbon Glacier ).

Sick's also brewed Rainier at a branch brewery in Spokane.

Later, the Rainier brewery would also take over brewing Heidelberg beer after its brewery in Tacoma, Washington, closed.

Additional service was also provided between San Diego and Los Angeles and between Portland and Seattle ( those became the San Diegan and Mount Rainier / Puget Sound on November 14 ).

Neighboring Rainier Valley also shows a similar diversity, with the area's 98118 zip code named the most diverse in the country in the 2010 US Census.

The Osceola lahar produced by Mount Rainier ( Washington ) some 5, 600 years ago resulted in a wall of mud deep in the White River canyon, which covered an area of over, for a total volume of.

A maraschino cherry ( or ) is a preserved, sweetened cherry, typically made from light-colored sweet cherries such as the Royal Ann, Rainier, or Gold varieties.

The highest peaks, such as the high Mount Rainier, dominate their surroundings for.

Much of the northern half of the Cascades, from Rainier north, have been preserved by US national or British Columbia provincial parks ( such as E. C.

None have erupted since St. Helens, but precautions are being taken nevertheless, such as the Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System in Pierce County, Washington.

Other groups soon joined, such as the National Geographic Society and scientific associations wanting Mount Rainier preserved as a place to study volcanism and glaciology.

Some optical disk software, such as IsoBuster, can support Mount Rainier on non-MR drives.

In recent history, the resort has hosted several presidents and vice-presidents, foreign dignitaries such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco.

The brewery went through several names, such as Sick's Seattle Brewing and Malting and Sicks Rainier Brewing Company, during the 1935 – 1977 period.

A similar system for identifying such lahars exists at Mount Rainier in the U. S. state of Washington.

Renier or Rainier (; c. 1084 – May 1135 ), son of William IV, Marquess of Montferrat, was the ruler of the state of Montferrat in north-west Italy from about 1100 to his death, and the first such to be identified in contemporary documents as Margrave of Montferrat.

Rainier, two of North America ’ s most impressive peaks, but also to the tops of such states as Delaware and Rhode Island, where most people would contend there are no actual mountains to climb.

Since then, Lucky Lager has been brewed in Irwindale, CA, along with other brands such as Olympia and Rainier.

Grand Teton National Park lies in the watershed, as well as parts of Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, and North Cascades National Park.

Rainier National Park.

If defined as Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest has four US National Parks: Crater Lake in Oregon, and Olympic, Mount Rainier, and North Cascades in Washington.

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Rainier National Park, mountain bike descents, adventure races and custom combo-treks.

The Count toured Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Yosemite, the San Bernardino Mountains, Zion, Rocky Mountain National Park, the Wasatch Mountains, Pocatello, Jackson Hole, and Grand Targhee areas.

Today, a large area of Mount Rainier is considered an historic district by the National Register of Historic Places.

Located just a few miles west of the main entrance to Mount Rainier National Park, it features numerous shops and accommodations for visitors.

Helicopters based at the airfield assisted with medical evacuations at Mount Rainier National Park on numerous occasions in the 1970s.

" When Mount Rainier National Park was established in 1899, tourists would take the train to its terminus in Lake Park and from there make the two-day journey to Mount Rainier, making Spanaway the original " gateway " to Mount Rainier.

The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park.

Mount Rainier National Park is a United States National Park located in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state.

About 1. 8 million people visit Mount Rainier National Park each year.

Ninety-seven percent of the park is preserved as wilderness under the National Wilderness Preservation System, including Clearwater Wilderness and Mount Rainier Wilderness, a designation it received in 1988.

The earliest evidence of human activity in the area which is now Mount Rainier National Park is a projectile point dated to circa 4, 000-5, 800 BP ( before present ) found along Bench Lake Trail ( the first section of Snow Lake Trail ).

In 1963 the National Park Service contracted the Washington State University to study Native American use of the Mount Rainier area.

On March 2, 1899, President William McKinley signed a bill passed by Congress authorizing the creation of Mount Rainier National Park, the nation's fifth national park.