Mount Rainier Sunrise

We arrived in Mount Rainier National Park very early in the morning last August and coming from the west made our first stop at Kautz Creek, where this picture was taken. My wife stayed in the car sleeping while I got out to take a few photos.

Kautz Creek is a tributary of the Nisqually River and is notorious for its mudflows and floods, one of which in 1947 moved 40,000,000 cubic meters of earth and buried the road from which this photo was taken with 10 meters of debris.