August 29, 2021
Getting to Mt. Rainier was more fun than we had expected. We stopped in at Ex-Nihilo, Latin for something created out of nothing, for a geocache and had a great time exploring four acres of “Recycled Spirits of Iron”. Sculptor Daniel Klennert started collecting material (junk) at about eight years old and began welding at 22. “I do not form shapes,” he said. “I collect shapes to create my forms.”
As for the Mt. Rainier National Park itself, we could spend another week there! Let’s start with the mountain. It is one of the volcanos in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and its first eruption is thought to have been 840,000 years ago.
We visited several waterfalls.
The Park hopes to restore and reopen the campground one day although Park facilities are always vulnerable to events like the 2006 flood.
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