Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Dec 8, 2009, 4:26 pm
I've written about snow data, and some information about snow sites. Here I'd like to write about who to find addtional data about the snow sites and other snow sites operated by the Natural R...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Dec 3, 2009, 7:37 pm
2010 Water Year Graph for Paradise SNOTEL, Washington Above is the winter 2009-10 snow data for the NRCS' Paradise SNOTEL site, southwest of Paradise. This is the snow-water equivalent (SWE), mea...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Dec 2, 2009, 6:37 pm
Updated December 10th.--I've updated the news, the access and conditions, and the monthly report Web pages for the photo guide to Mt. Rainier NP. It's easy to describe the NP in December, and ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 25, 2009, 7:08 am
Over the month of December I'll be working on the 2010 plans for the Mt. Rainier NP photo guide. At this juncture I'd like to ask folks to send in or add comments with their ideas and suggesti...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 19, 2009, 3:59 pm
I've updated the Webcam Web page for the latest Webcam at the Mountain Climb Center at Paradise. It is east of the Jackson Visitor Center between the center and Paradise Inn, image above. This is ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 18, 2009, 5:44 pm
Update.-- It's back and current. Please let me know if you encounter any problems with Web pages. The short version of the long story is my Website host moved all the Websites to a third-party meg...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 16, 2009, 5:22 pm
I've updated the photo guide with minor tweaks, sufficient to sequence it to version 2.7 and put it and the Website version and date on the same sequence. I'll continue to tweak both the Webs...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 16, 2009, 4:54 pm
I have updated the news, conditions, and report Web pages for the NP. This includes that latest information about the roads and activites to Novemer 15th. The NP is now in full winter mode under wint...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 12, 2009, 2:30 pm
The Washington State Department of Transportation has closed highwy 410 over Cayuse Pass at Crystal Mountain Boulevard tol the summit and closed highway 123 at Stevens Canyon Road to the summit. This ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 8, 2009, 11:42 am
I have updated the Web page for the Webcams at Paradise in Mt. Rainier NP with a notice, which reads as follows. Late last week (November 3rd) the four Webcams at the Jackson Vistor Center (below) st...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 6, 2009, 5:21 pm
I have updated the winter photography Web page and map with the photo guide. With winter coming to the NP and the NP in winter operation mode, it's time to plan and prepare accordingly. This will ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 5, 2009, 6:47 pm
... assessment for the $32.7 million improvement of the highway from the Nisqually entrance to Paradise, see TNT story. ... for appropriattions for the work to begin in 2012. The improvements on t...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 4, 2009, 1:00 pm
Updated 3/18/09 and 11/4/09 Since I've been researching the material behind the 1896 expedition I've discovered the real possibility and most likely probability the photos published with the ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 3, 2009, 6:30 pm
This is an updated version of the May 2008 post, correcting location information and adding new information. It's coming to the time folks like to think about visiting Mt. Rainier, but there is s...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 2, 2009, 1:50 pm
The Washington Trails Associattion (Website) included an article about how to Ford a river in the September-October 2009 magazine to members (found on newsstands). Well, after 14 years of field experi...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 1, 2009, 10:05 am
The Washington Department of Transportation (WADOT) has closed highway 410 over Chinook Pass for the season. The statement on their Web page is "Elevation: 5430 ft / 1655 m Temperature: Not Available...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Nov 1, 2009, 10:00 am
I've updated the Mt. Rainier NP photo guide for November for the news, access and conditions and the monthly prospects. I've also updated the areas guides, see overview, for the southwest, ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Oct 21, 2009, 12:41 pm
It just doesn't pay to even think to go to Mt. Rainier NP unless you're ok with clouds. Not clouds of the normal sort, but being inside clouds. With Paradise at 5,400 feet elevation and the Pu...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Oct 16, 2009, 7:05 am
An article in the Tacoma News Tribune story, reports that the NPS hasn't made the final decision on the future of the Carbon River Road. I've written some posts here, about the flood damage, p...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Oct 15, 2009, 9:47 pm
It's now a parking lot. The NPS at Mt. Rainier NP announced the lower parking at Pardise at the old and now demolited visitors center (the 1966 spaceship building, above) is finished and open. It...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Oct 14, 2009, 10:27 am
The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) and Natural Resources Defense Coucil (NRDC) has released a report, "National Parks in Peril", see press release. The report covers a number of national p...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Oct 14, 2009, 10:10 am
Photo property of Seattle Times A section of highway 410 about 12 miles west of Naches on the east side of the Cascade Mountain, northwest of Yakima was blocked by a landslide this weekend, see Seatt...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Oct 9, 2009, 3:12 pm
I'm not sure who develops the map layers at Google, but their quality assurance leaves something to be desired, and insufficient when a new version was released this week. If folks use the map Web...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Oct 1, 2009, 4:37 pm
I have updated the Mt. Rainier NP photo guide for the October news, access and information, and the monthly prospective Web pages. October is the transistion month between the last of the September vi...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Sep 16, 2009, 2:43 pm
A morning in the life of Mt. Rainier NP at 9:09 am off the NPS webcams at the Jackson Visitors Center at Paradise. First looking east over the parking lot to Mazama Ridge to Stevens Van Trump Monument...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Sep 8, 2009, 9:13 pm
I was wandering around the Internet, like we don't. Ok, bad joke, but I like to just think out loud and wander using search engine and other Websites, and occasionally links from reading. Really, ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Sep 5, 2009, 4:05 pm
I have updated the two map retrieval Web pages for USGS 7 1/2 topographic quadrangles, the older DRG files and the latest PDF files. I added the eastern set of maps which covers the eastern extent of ...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Sep 4, 2009, 2:44 pm
Some news and notes for those planning visits to Mt. Rainier NP over the Labor Day weekend. I'm not persuading you not to go, please go and enjoy. I only want to let you know about some things you...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Sep 2, 2009, 1:32 pm
I've updated the Web page of information and resources for the phot guide. It was mostly reorganized groups of links and updating links to new Web pages and I've updated the book resources Web...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Aug 31, 2009, 5:50 pm
I have updated the Mt. Rainier NP photo guide news and information, the access and conditions, and September prospects Web pages. This year the snowpack is long gone from all but a few places near or...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Aug 29, 2009, 8:57 pm
I have added the Carbon River and Mowich Lake (northwest) area photo guide along with updating the southwest and Paradise area guides (minor edits). You can get an overview of all the area photo guide...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Aug 27, 2009, 2:45 pm
I have updated the southwest and Paradise area guides with short history section, more to get you a feel that visitors, hikers and climbers have been coming to Mt. Rainier of about 130 years and longe...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Aug 27, 2009, 8:01 am
If you plan to hike/climb to Camp Muir, the NPS has issued a press release about the conditions on the snowfield to Camp Muir, see news release (PDF) and cited below along with the Get Your Bearings (...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Aug 26, 2009, 7:56 pm
Photo courtesy of NP Webcam Just a note in passing about the work on the Mt. Rainier NP photo guide and conditions at the NP. August is the transistion month in the NP, from the end of spring in June...
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Scott K. posted an article on WSR Mt Rainier NP - Aug 25, 2009, 8:09 pm
While researching the history of Mt. Rainier NP, I've managed to find some really cool, or is cool to me, historic publications about the NP or related to the NP. And with the Internet these days,...
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