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| Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp
out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks
full of Nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will
blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares
will drop off like autumn leaves.
-- John Muir, Our National Parks Tracing rivers to their fountains makes the most charming of travels. As
the life blood of the landscapes, the best of the wilderness comes to their
banks, and not one dull passage is found in all their eventful histories.
-- John Muir, Steep Trails |
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Representative images from three of the world's great mountain ranges are
currently shown.
 | Cascades. The range extends 700 miles from northern California to southern
British Columbia. Mt. Rainier National Park is
in the Washington Cascades. Mt. Rainier is 14,410 ft. tall and contains 25
named glaciers that cover 34 square miles. The
Nisqually,
White,
Carbon, Cowlitz, and Puyallup
Rivers flow from these glaciers. The Oregon Cascades
include mountains in the Deschutes Country. |
| Himalaya. The 1500-mile range in Asia
contains the highest peaks in the world, including Mt. Everest, the highest at
29,035 ft, and Dhalagiri, the seventh highest at 26,794 ft. These images are
from two treks in 1971-2. |
| Sierra Nevada. This 400-mile range extends along the eastern border of
California, from the Mojave Desert in the south to the Feather River Basin in
the north. Mt. Whitney, at 14,494, is the highest peak in the contiguous
United States. Several national parks, including
Yosemite, and forests are contained in the range. |
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