IN AN ARCTIC WONDERLAND

OUNT RAINIER is nearly three miles high measured from sea-level. It rises nearly two miles from its immediate base. Once it was a finished cone like the famous Fujiyama, the sacred mountain of Japan. Then it was probably 16,000 feet high. Indian legends tell of the great eruption which blew its top off.

In addition to the twenty-eight named glaciers there are others yet unnamed and little known. Few visitors have seen the wonderful north side, a photograph of which will be found on a later page. It possesses endless possibilities for development and easy grades to Columbia Crest, the wonderful snow-covered summit which, until Mount Whitney was measured, was considered the highest.

Many interesting things might be told of the glaciers were there space. For example, several species of minute insects live in the ice, hopping about like tiny fleas. They are harder to see than the so-called sand-fleas at the seashore because much smaller. Slender, dark-brown worms live in countless millions in the surface ice. Microscopic rose-colored plants also thrive in such great numbers that they tint the surface here and there, making what is commonly called "red snow."

COASTING AT PARADISE VALLEY Photograph by Curtis & Miller

ONE OF THE GREAT SPECTACLES OF AMERICA IS MOUNT RAINIER, FROM INDIAN HENRY'S HUNTING GROUND, GLISTENING AGAINST THE SKY AND PICTURED AGAIN IN REFLECTION LAKE Photograph by Curtis & Miller.