Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sound ate so many clams "their stomachs rose and fell with the tides." They were great individualists. There was Hazard Stevens, son of the first Governor. At twelve he left home to make a treaty with the Gros Ventre Indians. He was the first white man to climb Mount Rainier...
...Narrows; the tides are too swift, the water too cold. The Narrows make one of the Northwest's dramatic views-the dark green evergreens and the far peaks of the Olympics above the opposite shore, the wide sweep of water beyond Fox Island and Point Defiance, Mount Rainier in the east, and directly below, the shimmering green water, flicked with white caps as the tides change...
Mount Shuksan in Washington's Cascades is a 9,030-ft. mass of snow fields, glaciers, crevasses, waterfalls, rock chimneys (vertical crevices). Mount Rainier is higher (14,408 ft.); Mount Baker is more difficult, less dangerous (although six climbers died on its slopes last year...
...Shuksan outing last week went three competent climbers: H. Karl Boyer, 28, of Seattle, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; Anne Cedarquist, 22, a chemist who once climbed California's hazardous Lassen Peak; Faye Plank, 37, a Bremerton librarian. Miss Cedarquist had climbed Rainier twice this year, Boyer once. They expected to be up to Shuksan's peak and safely down by nightfall...