Sunrise Road Geology - Mount Rainier National Park

[@66kbm]

Two videos in one day, you are spoiling us. That view of Rainier is stunning. Thank you.

[@toddhanson1336]

What an enjoyable and fascinating look into the process of geologic research and discovery. Fantastic views of the mountains supplemented by learning on the fly. As many times as I’ve been up that road I now see it in a new light. Thank you!

[@myrachurchman5013]

My God Washington is beautiful! You have no idea what these videos do for us who were once avid hikers and now have limited mobility. Many thanks.

[@Dripfed]

What a spectacular landscape! A trip to the PNW wasn't ever on the cards because...I see enough rain in the UK. But unless something untoward happens, I'll be visiting September 2025. All because of being introduced to PNW geology by Nick and the many contributors.

[@eugeneport1748]

Visit Jul/Aug if you want a guarantee of no rain. Rain usually starts in September.

[@BGraves]

We get sometimes 3 months straight in the summer without rain

[@motionsick]

We only got rain the last couple weeks been bone dry since June.

[@davidgrampa]

Come late July. Sunrise sometimes doesn't open until late July due to snow.

[@jamaicabwoy6379]

You are not the only one who is tempted to do a tour because of Nick. He is a one man travel show.

[@donswier]

Can we all just take a second to realize the majesty surrounding us in the PNW? As a kid, I assumed other people worldwide could just cruise from rainforest to desert to massive volcano in just a few hours. How blessed we are here 🤠👍

[@gerryjamesedwards1227]

That columnar faulting is spectacular! What a place. It seems as though you could spend a lifetime exploring it and never stop finding new stunning views.

[@tennesseenana4838]

As beautiful as the Mt Rainier National Park is in this video, it's 1000 times more magnificent when you are experiencing it in person. I spent many hours enjoying it while living in Washington state in the '70s & '80s. Thanks, Prof Nick, for sharing this with everyone.

[@lindsaymalone9371]

Wow Nick! Exciting timing! I'm on my way to Sunrise right now for my birthday. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm and helping us all feel the awe for these spectacular landscapes.

[@stevemeisenheimermeisenhei4523]

One of my favorite places so beautiful! Weird to think it will all be gone someday just like Mt. St. Helens. Love that drive up to Rainier.

[@glenncruickshank2859]

You too are out of control. One of your best, and the solo production is impressive. What a weather day. I now regret learning geology from you AFTER I climbed the mountain several decades ago. Nice special effects at the end. Bravo

[@geoffreynewton5839]

Thanks Nick for the tour. The video quality on this is excellent and gives us mere mortals on the other side of the world a grand tour of what we probably won’t see in person and an explanation ( or at least questions)about the forces that created this spectacular place.

[@stephen627]

Another smashing video professor! Complete with a beer break. Loved it.

[@sharonseal9150]

Thanks for another great walkabout Nick! Batholiths seems to be a theme this summer, and I am hopeful by the end of the next A to Z you will have pinned down for us more of the story of when they were formed (and where) and when they were uplifted to the surface.

[@_Michiel_]

Good heavens, what absolutely amazing surroundings! Breathtaking views galore in the Pacific Northwest. ❤

[@elainejones5109]

Beautiful scenery, great information, and some expectation-setting! Thanks for a superb video. And I'm definitely going to read that Fiske paper!!

[@kdubate1974]

Thanks for letting me relive my drive up to Sunrise. This time with some learning involved!

[@hertzer2000]

The horizontal columns right off the bat got me very excited. You're da King, Nick.

[@JanetHouck-h5h]

Thank you for making these trips and sharing with us. Road trip.

[@Vickie-Bligh]

What a hook for the Cascade series! Wow, Nick. That's exciting and I'm thrilled, as a fan and a Washington State resident.

[@MontanaGeologyTours]

Have to comment about the end screen.. I worked on the entire Rainier Beer Series in Seattle. Kaye-Smith Productions. Wardrobe designer. They have a Museum in Federal Way. My R-Heads yellow raincoat is there. The only one left. Rainnnnier... beerrrrr!

[@moonshiner5412]

I am blessed. I live 3 hours from Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks. Opposite directions of course. I have lived in or near the mountains my entire life and never get enough of seeing them. Thank you for another great episode.

[@TheBronzeChapter]

Most of us gaze at Tahoma and have a variety of feels, but few of us have any idea of how what we’re in awe of came to be what we’re looking at. And the relational aspect of how one thing is connected to another. Thanks for what you’re doing to help us learn about and more deeply appreciate Tahoma and its surround🫰🏾

[@gaiseric22]

Spent a week in Packwood 2 weeks ago. So cool that you are doing Ranier. Love it!

[@stevew5212]

Wow. So scenic. I need to get there one day and see that for myself. When I do I will be well informed about the rocks in the area. All thanks to you Nick.

[@RocziNovel]

Thanks for sharing all these observations!

[@Sukisunn]

Thank you Nick for your wonderful knowledge and I sights!

[@MtBakerlife]

Hi Nick, thanks for coming across the mountains!! Our beautiful Mt. Rainier explained! 💚

[@judischarns4509]

Breathtaking scenery. Good questions to ponder.

[@rogerclark2641]

Thank you Nick, So much to learn! Roll on November!

[@larryjohnson1776]

Thanks Nick

[@pasulliv1]

Wow. Beautiful views

[@inqwit1]

Fantastic views, great content today.

[@steveshaw628]

What a beautiful mountain!

[@GregsGeologyChannel]

I've also discovered that there's never a pull-off when you need one.

[@raenbow66]

That map! I want to know how far north the Ohanapecosh is. Just fabulous country and geology. Thanks so much, Nick.

[@hjumper8238]

Wow, Nick. Earlier today I watched your livestream with Karin Sigloch and your question about this area in relation to those plates in this area. Exciting! Thank you!

[@cyndikarp3368]

In 1975 when I traveled over White Pass, I wondered about the surrounding geology of Mt. Rainier looked much older.

[@wesleycoulter3346]

Thanks Nick. From Granite Falls

[@rayschoch5882]

Interesting questions… Yes, the days are numbered.

[@7inrain]

I wish we had a Geologist here in Germany who would go out into the landscape, take such stunning images and do an in-depth video about their geological origins as the way you do. This is just brilliant, brilliant stuff what you are delivering. So much so that I feel I know more about the PNW and the Cascades than about, say, the European Alps.

[@GeologyNick]

Thank you.

[@GodLovesYou1980]

Beautiful

[@motionsick]

This is only an hour from my house. Another awesome video thanks for sharing.

[@mamak1379]

Thanks Nick. I was through the parks via chinnook pass on our way to windy ridge. Rainier was a bust for us.

[@Samantha-bw4qd]

Thank you for all the info 🤩🤩🤩 new subscriber I love your style and voice

[@yukigatlin9358]

Interesting to think the incisions of Cascades at 5 million years ago!!😏✨If the well thought geological questions haven't had no answers, we would want to keep investigating, wouldn't we even if those questions were raised in 1963?! Hmmm..., fun!😁Thanks, Nick!!💞💙It was a wonderfully photogenic day, by the way...

[@Joe-j5j1u]

Great stuff Nick, thanks

[@WarrenOsborne-n3x]

I used to live up at Pacific Beach, late 70's. We would usually visit Paradise. My old hiking friend and I even made the long slog up to the top.. It was just a hike,, not mountaineering per say. Now here in central NC, I do miss the wow factor of the incredible scenery. I have wondered about the Tatoosh range and their origin. Thank you for your insights.

[@medievalcreatures]

Roadside Geology says horizontal columns cooled next to ice - I think your finger went over that part in PP's book. I have an 02 Toyota Echo I need to get rid of, but I think I need to exploit those excellent MPG's for a trip up Sunrise before the snow flies!! If anyone in western Canada wants to buy the Echo pls get in touch.

[@sluggotinfantryman]

If you are old the easiest place in America to walk into the wild, is the Beartooth right off hwy. Bam. Rainier is Naches Loop. Chinook Pass. Love the green rocks!

[@complimentary_voucher]

We enjoyed the snappy editing of this piece. Rainier looks so bloody dangerous, like a big sore zit getting ready to blow lol.

[@hjpngmw]

I kept staring at the mountain wondering what was drawing my attention. Then, it suddenly hit me. I was looking at the view pictured on the fans we had in church when I was a little girl! (I, too, was born in the 60's--'65 to be precise; I'm also old enough to remember a time before our church had AC!

[@dakinmaher4522]

Great, interesting, fun & thought provoking video. Raaaaaii neeeaaaar Beeeeeeeer!😂

[@skyecooleyartwork]

Should be a ton of lithic fragments in the Ohanapecosh system - chunks of pumice, etc.

[@terripackard9292]

You found a great day when the "Mountain was out."

[@naoakiooishi6823]

Yes, you set the stage for the autumn and winter of the rest of the year 2024. Here in Yokohama Japan it still registers 95 degrees F and I long for the cool weather to set in here.

[@estruble]

You had better timing than I did. I was up there 2 days before (on Tuesday) and ran into the Ramrod Bike "ride" with over 800 riders. Needless to say traffic looked like a 4th of July weekend.

[@julienalexander6113]

Ay be careful out there man. Beautiful place.

[@janielaurel]

Knowing the weather in the PNW, you're really pushing your luck to get A to Z done before "winter" ... I can't wait to see this series. I miss Tahoma; she is such a beautiful mountain. All I see out here in Eastern WA is dust storms and wheat fields. LOL

[@GiacomodellaSvezia]

10:37 I knew you were going to kick that stone out of the way.👍

[@ssgtmole8610]

Having grown up a bit in Seattle, I'm used to the more curved look of Mt. Rainier's western side. The eastern side looks more jagged on the south portion to me.

[@beerrunism]

@Nick Zentner What about the Cowlitz Divide that is close to the Wonderland Trail outside of Ohanapecosh Campground? You would drive around it on the way up to Paradise from our side of the mountains.

[@Eric_Hutton.1980]

The Cascades are more than the volcanoes we know now. Time for those lesser known and unknown volcanoes to be in the spotlight.

[@Sukisunn]

Nick yes most people when you say study of cascade volcanos. They think of the volcanos them selves... But that whole land scape is volcanic systems poking through everywhere around the volcanos. Some because of the volcanos and some before.

[@Sukisunn]

Nick if your theory is right about Yellowstone. The land scape you are standing on. 10s of millions of years ago was ripped apart by that hot spot. And then slowly drifted north. So ya it makes a lot of sense what you are talking about... And I am excited to learn more about the volcanic systems around the volcanos them selves.

[@12bigredd]

wow.... I come from the Nine Glenss of Antrim in Ireland.... people tell me that visit it its defo some of the best scenery in the world..... maybe it is but I grew up in it... but it is the same type of place but older mountians all wore down... all the volcanoes exstinct..... the lava collums are vertical and the gold all collected lol :) ooh and its smaller lol but defo same same but different lol :)

[@wendygerrish4964]

Encountering the Mary Wells School photo at the beginning review was, well.. hilarious.

[@qrplife]

Raaaaaaai-neeeeeeer-beeeeeer!

[@lekoman]

As a burrowing insect, you can appreciate why little Nick zANTner there might've wanted a better look at that publication...

[@dahemac]

Because of movies… Every time you turn your camera towards Rainier, I half expect it to erupt.

[@charlesflorian1758]

Great road trip. I can look out for my house here in Prosser and see MT. Hood. Also Mt. Adams, ant geologic info on that mountain?

[@billsmart2532]

Wow, after so much time and tectonic movement discussed, revealed in your quest for answers, Mount Rainier seems as small as a boil on the back of a bison.

[@peasanthill5255]

Why not a single source. After all, the Robinson Cecil interview from a couple of winters ago, displayed how vast the southeast Alaska Plutonic Complex is. Hundreds of miles!

[@kenwin5845]

Such soul searching geology Nick!

[@doug1olson]

So perhaps all those plutons are connected somewhat like the Sierra Nevada batholith? I’m sure I don’t know what I’m talking about.

[@garyrogers6977]

What camera did you use?

[@robviens5241]

Your final shot made me laugh and remember this old classic Rainier Beer commercial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/omG5kpVroNCdfpIsi=qUM-oOWfzEQE6qom Continue to enjoy revisiting old sites and rethinking old mysteries. Thanks!

[@wtpauley]

So if all of those plutons are the same age, after new dating technics, and are the same chemistry, I could buy into them all being connected under the other layers.

[@longcastle4863]

What is the roaring twenties a metaphor for? As a new listener I have no idea what this means.

[@douglaspohl1827]

Sing a jingle or buzz the can by with sound effects... using the Rainier can of beer... edit and repost please...

[@StewartSmith-g4f]

Thanks Nick