Mount Rainier contains the most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings.

"Mount Rainier contains the most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings."

John Muir

Photo: Avalanche Lilies, the "Stairway to Heaven" (Skyline Trail) and Mt. Rainier; Paradise, Mt. Rainier National Park, WA; July 25, 2012