Mt. Tahoma: or "Der Berg Ruft!"

Today Uwe took me to Mt.Rainier or Mt.Tahoma, its' native name - this still active volcano is about 4400 m high and got his own national park. I was again lucky with the weather and got a very nice view from sunrise. I saw an eagle on the way to the grove of the patriarch - most of the old growth are helmlock trees, red cedars and douglas firs. Some of the trees there are older than a 1000 years, up to 60 m high and have a circumference of about 10 m. Those trees are majestic beauties - astonishing monuments of life - it made us sad to learn that one of those big fellows fell in a storm last november.
We had some other nice views on the way to paradise - which was in the clouds unfortunately - and came back just in time for a nice sunset shot with the needle.