The winter solstice arrived with a crystalline, diamond-bright clarity that bathed the Cascade Range in majestic splendor. The savage blizzards of the previous week had subsided into a serene, subzero stillness, leaving the glaciers of Mount Rainier blanketed under fresh powder that sparkled like pulverized glass beneath the clear blue sky. At fourteen thousand feet, the summit of the mountain stood like an incandescent throne of white and gold, visible…
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