Golden Gate Photo - Mount Rainier Gallery

Golden Gate Photo - Mount Rainier Gallery
Fine Art Photography from Mount Rainier National Park.

Mount Rainier is one of the Cascade Volcanoes, a string of volcanoes along the Pacific Rim from Northern California to British Columbia. Mount Rainier is just southeast of the Seattle/Tacoma metropolitan area, making it one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. It is a stratovolcano, built by progressive eruptions of Lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic debris beginning about 730,000 years ago. The last eruption occurred about 2,200 years ago, leaving up to a foot of volcanic ash and debris on the ground. Its enormous, glacier-capped top is the source of numerous debris avalanches, some of which have flowed all the way to the Puget Sound, 60 miles (100 Km) away. An area of 235,613 acres around the volcano was established as a national park in 1899.

	Mount Rainier Taken from "Glacier View", this is Mount Rainier as seen from the south. The mass of flowing ice in the left-center of the image is the Wilson Glacier as it merges into the Nisqually Glacier which in turn flows down to the lower left corner of the image. Print No. A00-30-8
	Glaciated Basalt Field Taken from just above Box Canyon, on the southeast side of Mount Rainier. Sculptured by the Cowlitz Glacier, now three miles up-canyon, this slope is a flow of basalt lava, a volcanic rock from an uncommon type of eruption at Mount Rainier. Print No. A99NW-14-11
	Mount Rainier from Reflection Lake In the background is the top of the dormant volcano at 14,411 feet (4,394 meters) above sea level. Lined with trees is Mazama Ridge. The patch of ice on the bottom of this view is Reflection Lake. Typically this time year (July) the reflection of the volcano would be staring back. But thanks to the record snowfall in 1999, this lake has yet to emerge from its icy grip. Print No. A99NW-15-2
	Maple Falls and Half Moon Looking west from Box Canyon, Maple Falls cascades off Tatoosh Range on the south side of Mount Rainier. The Tatoosh Range is a rugged, glaciated stretch of pre-Mount Rainier volcanic and granitic bedrock. Print No. A99NW-14-9 More Images of Waterfalls
	Nisqually Glacier Lateral Moraine A short hike from the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center at Paradise, this is the view from the ridgeline on the east side of the glacier, looking north toward Mount Rainier. This ridgeline, and the one on the west side of the glacial valley, are lateral moraines, debris piles hundreds of feet high plowed by the glacier. Print No. A00-31-1
	Tatoosh Range Not all in Mount Rainier National Park is of volcanic origin. Looking south from above the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center are the glacier-carved peaks of the Tatoosh Range. These mountains are the eroded remnants of the Tatoosh Pluton, a 17 million year old granodiorite that solidified deep in the crust well before volcanic activity associated with the Cascade Volcanoes began. Print No. A00-31-3
	Mount Rainier from Mount St. Helens This is the view of Mount Rainier from inside the crater of Mount St. Helens. Print No. A01NW-13-2 Here are more images of Mount St. Helens

More Volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire:
Cascade Volcanoes of Washington
Mount St. Helens
Cascade Volcanoes of Oregon
Crater Lake
Cascade Volcanoes of California

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