foothills, Mt Rainier
Right around those clouds my great-grandparents homesteaded in 1884, So-Ho-Tash valley, now Ashford. John Muir and the 1888 Rainier ascent team stayed with them to and from. Muir kept in touch w/ the Kernahans, even sending books to their daughter ( my g-ma Ruth) when at boarding school in Olympia. AC Warner, a Seattle photog hired by Muir, had done the Kernahan wedding portrait years earlier back in Lincoln Nebraska… from where they walked to the mountain….
foothills, Mt Rainier
Right around those clouds my great-grandparents homesteaded in 1884, So-Ho-Tash valley, now Ashford. John Muir and the 1888 Rainier ascent team stayed with them to and from. Muir kept in touch w/ the Kernahans, even sending books to their daughter ( my g-ma Ruth) when at boarding school in Olympia. AC Warner, a Seattle photog hired by Muir, had done the Kernahan wedding portrait years earlier back in Lincoln Nebraska… from where they walked to the mountain….