#mount rainier

[pnwander]

so the shortest day came, and the year died. and everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing, to drive the dark away. —Susan Cooper

[mountrainiernps]

Today is the winter solstice, when the northern hemisphere is tilted the farthest away from the sun. This creates the shortest day and the longest night of the year. At Mount Rainier, today the sun rose at 7:47 am and will set at 4:22 pm, with 8 hours 35 minutes of daylight (7 hours 19 minutes shorter than the summer solstice!) While the winter solstice also marks the first day of winter, it also means that every day gets a little bit longer as we move towards summer.

Do you enjoy winter recreation in the park or are you looking forward to the longer days of summer?

NPS/L. Lane Photo of sunrise illuminating Mount Rainier, October 1979.

[petitworld]

Tatoosh Range, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA by Chris Moore

[expressions-of-nature]

Mt. Rainier Tipsoo Lake Sunrise by Charles Orchard

[rosechata]

throughdarkforests

[followyourdarnarrow]

[deletingmyself]

(by Cedric Letsch)| Washington, US

[orofeaiel]

Paradise Inn - MRNP

[vorpalfae]

.𖥔 ݁ ˖ 𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱 𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔯, 𝔴𝔞𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔱𝔬𝔫🌲 .𖥔 ݁ ˖꩜

[xoverit]

Tacoma, Washington. (May 2021)

[mountrainiernps]

Longmire is open 7 days a week. An easy, family-friendly activity is walking the 3/4-mile-long Trail of the Shadows. The trail features historic volcanic mineral springs, forest and meadow habitats, and views of Mount Rainier and Rampart Ridge. Exhibit panels along the trail reveal more about the history of the area and the unique features of this low elevation meadow. In case the panels are covered in snow, the trail also has a self-guided tour in the NPS App.

Find more weekday activities in the park at https://go.nps.gov/AltWinterRecreation.

NPS Photo taken 2/1/23 of the Mount Rainier and the Longmire Meadow viewed from the Trail of the Shadows.

[petitworld]

Mt. Rainier National Park, USA by Emilie Hofferber

[expressions-of-nature]

by Johan River

[ladysansa]

for your consideration:

Great Smokey Mountains

Grand Teton

Yellowstone

Acadia

Olympic

Mount Rainier

Yosemite

Grand Canyon

[grundoonmgnx]

Bo Bartlett, Manifest Destiny, 2006 Oil on panel, 24 x 24 in

This is Betsy sitting in what looks like a 787 Dreamliner, which was supposed to have big windows. She looks like she is going up in an airplane, and Mount Rainier is out the window. I started it just as a painting of the mountain. I was outside in the back yard, and I was going to just paint Mount Ranier.

I painted the mountain, and I had the painting in my studio for a few days. Then I put the island right down below it in the foreground. Then I realized that that was not enough, so I put Betsy in it, looking at the mountain. And then it was sort of static, and I painted the interior of the airplane window around her, between her and the mountain. It was so strange the way it evolved.

[pnwbean]

Northern lights over Her Majesty 🏔️🌌🖤✨

Mount Rainier NP, Washington State, USA