This is a brief excerpt from PhotoFocus
Photo by Scott Bourne – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons
For me, photography is about protecting memories. Protecting them for yourself and for others. I spent 14 years living in the Seattle area, less than three hours from Mt. Rainier National Park. We had a family cabin in Packwood just seven miles from the park’s Longmire entrance. I cut my landscape photography teeth at that location. I spent countless hours not only photographing the icons, but roaming old logging roads and US Forest Service roads looking for that perfect angle of the mountain.
What many people don’t realize is that Mt. Rainier is one of the most active volcanos on this side of the planet. There are 200-300 mini earthquakes a day on the mountain. The U.S. Geological Survey has called it the most dangerous volcano in the US. There is evidence of at least 60 lahars over the last 10,000 years. The last major lahar occurred about 500 years ago, when a large chunk of the volcano collapsed and triggered mudflows that inundated the river valleys below, leaving deposits that are 30 feet thick in places.
In 2006, there was volcanic activity on the 14,410 foot tall mountain combined with unusual weather conditions, that led to …
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