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Harmony Lawrence

I found “A year in Paradise” the personal account of living in the Paradise lodge for a winter by Floyd Schmoe an interesting way of viewing the past of the area we will soon be visiting in our class.  I am hoping that this book will help give me a sense of the environment on Mount Rainer before the heightening of the urbanizing mentality that now possesses society in this day and age.

            Though I have never been on Mount Rainer myself, I felt a connection to the mountain environment described through the vivid words of Floyd.  The images of the snow white environment and the lines of tracks moving through the snow around his house and the birds that he came in contact with all triggered a sense of relationship with a mountain.  I found the scenes very familiar with the world I knew as a child at Crystal Mountain not far from Rainer.

            It is amazing to see the same scenery from my childhood at the mountain lodge being described by an account of the same environment, only 50 years in the past.  The similarities are very present in the species and habitat described.  The only difference I saw between my mountain lodge experience and his was the amount of snow involved.  When I was young there was a significantly less amount of snow falling than in his account.

            I hope reading his account of Mount Rainer will help me become more aware of the changes we might see during our trip to the mountain this next week.

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