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Article: Mount Rainier is a sleeping giant
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2003
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Mount Rainier is a sleeping giant, experts warn
Volcano threatens populated areas, geologists say
By BLAINE HARDEN Washington Post
Sunday, August 31, 2003
Mount Rainier National Park, Wash. -- Wedding-cake white and big
beyond words, Mount Rainier floats above Puget Sound like a child's
dream of what a mountain might be.
Dreams of Rainier come in handy here, for the mountain itself has
a habit of disappearing in clouds for weeks or even months on end.
The 3 million people who live in and around Seattle know, of course,
that it is up here -- nearly 2 3/4 miles high, encased in glacial ice
and fattening itself up every winter with more than 50 feet of fresh
snow.
During this freakishly warm, ...