Mount Rainier National Park, red fall color, Naches Peak Loop Trail, Washington, USA.

In Mount Rainier National Park, hike the Naches Peak Loop Trail for 5 miles, starting near Chinook Pass on Highway 410 between Enumclaw and Yakima, for red fall foliage color in Washington, USA. Published since 2013 on StayRainier.com and AltaCrystalResort.com web sites. Global warming and climate change: Mount Rainier’s glaciers shrank 22% by area and 25% by volume between 1913 and 1994 in conjunction with rising temperatures (Nylen 2004). As of 2009, monitored glaciers are continuing to retreat (NPS). Over the last century, most glaciers have been shrinking across western North America (Moore et al. 2009) and the globe (Lemke et al. 2007) in association with increasing temperatures.

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In Mount Rainier National Park, hike the Naches Peak Loop Trail for 5 miles, starting near Chinook Pass on Highway 410 between Enumclaw and Yakima, for red fall foliage color in Washington, USA. Published since 2013 on StayRainier.com and AltaCrystalResort.com web sites. Global warming and climate change: Mount Rainier’s glaciers shrank 22% by area and 25% by volume between 1913 and 1994 in conjunction with rising temperatures (Nylen 2004). As of 2009, monitored glaciers are continuing to retreat (NPS). Over the last century, most glaciers have been shrinking across western North America (Moore et al. 2009) and the globe (Lemke et al. 2007) in association with increasing temperatures.