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A multi-plate steel snow tunnel leading to the entrance is being erected. (Photograph by Bender.)

The entrance after a heavy snowfall has covered the shelter and tunnel. (Photograph by Bender.)

Paradise Valley in Mount Rainier National Park is a popular winter sports center; but, as the scenes depicted above show, the snow brings problems. Not only are the roads blocked with snow in heavy storms, necessitating major snow removal, but buildings are covered. Here the problem of entrance to the winter shelter is solved.

But the snow, once it goes, leaves no scar of skiing here on the slope of Mount Rainier.

A 1,350-foot ski tow takes skiers to a starting point for 2-mile down-hill runs. (Courtesy, Rainier National Park Company.)

When summer comes. (Photograph by George A. Grant.)

Last Modified: Sat, Oct 5 2002 10:00:00 pm PDT
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