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3 stories matching lower

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  1. A Steam-Heated Night Inside Mount Rainier

    A local professor and two students discovered steam-filled caverns and potential new plant species while spending a harrowing night inside the crater of Mount Rainier.

    Aug 7, 1903The Evening StatesmanMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

  2. A Weather Station on the Roof of the Cascades

    A scientist's proposal imagined a summit hut on Mount Rainier, heated by volcanic steam and measuring what might be the windiest place on earth.

    Apr 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

  3. They Climbed Rainier First—and Slept in a Sulphur-Scented Ice Cave

    In 1870, Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump reached Mount Rainier's summit after a brutal 10½-hour climb, then spent a freezing night beside volcanic steam vents.

    Jan 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

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