MOUNT RAINIER, from Paradise Valley. Exponents of bigger and better crowds in national parks have pressed for a tramway on Mount Rainier, from Paradise Valley to Camp Muir at the 10,000-foot elevation, which is the overnight stop for climbers to the summit. The Secretary of the Interior has flatly supported the National Park Service in its opposition to a tramway, which would not add to the enjoyment of the scenic resources of the mountain—the reason for which the park was established. Neither is its economic feasibility proved, since its construction and operation at the proposed high altitudes, where weather conditions change rapidly, would present serious engineering and logistics problems and personal hazards. Projected tramways at Crater Lake, Grand Canyon, and Rocky Mountain National Parks also were disapproved. (Photograph by Bob and Ira Spring.)