This beautiful mountain is visible from my home and is only about a 90 min drive to the park entrance, but I have had the worse luck visiting it. From heavy fog moving in hiding the mountain, to the day my girlfriend and I were hulled out in an ambulance because of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning caused by a hole in a friend’s 55 Chevy’s muffler, and another hole in its floor so we can breath the stuff in for 90 min. I could write a book on my bad Mt. Rainer experiences. If the camera person was me, either my battery would have died just as the slide started, or I would be standing a thousand yards closer to the slide and ground to a pulp.
With your experiences, do you even contemplate what’s going to happen to you when Rainer goes active and erupts; avalanches, landslides, floods, lahars, large pyroclastic flows?
Me too... at least on a clear day.