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Show WHEN JUNE AND DECEMBER MARRY Enjoy Winter Sports and Summer Heat in Mount Rainier National Na-tional Park. In ono of the deep cleft valleys of Mount Rainier National park, near Seattle, Wash., there is consummated each year, according to a writer in the May issue of MoToR. the national magazine mag-azine of motoring, a ' ' veritable climatic wedding of June and December, a meeting meet-ing of the uorth pole and the equator." This unique combination of meteorological meteoro-logical conditions comes about as follows: fol-lows: The winter snows in Paradise valley at Mount Rainier reach a depth of anywhere from fifteen to fortv feet. The changing of the seasons here is accomplished with little of the hesitation hesita-tion that we know as spring. Instead the weather changes almost immediately immedi-ately from cold to warm, Suddenlv after the long months of frigidity, the generous summer sun beams out' upon Paradise valley and the air becomes balmy with June. Of course, the snow starts instantly to melt, but there is so much of it. so firmlv packed, that the process takes a week or ten davs. In the meantime it is possible to enjov winter sports, snow-shoeing, skiing, tobogganing, to-bogganing, sliding and general frolicking frolick-ing in the snow, in an atmosphere of midsummer. The really unique feature of the occasion is the sliding down the steen hillsides in specially- constructed leather-seated breeches, which aro made solely for this purpose. The way to reach this unique climatic playground is by motor car from Seattle. Seat-tle. So popular has winter sporting in summer become that a motor car garage has been established at the month of Paradise valley, where the vehicles may be left in care of a government ranger, while the occupants press on into the valley for the fun. If you are anywhere any-where within a thousand miles of Mount Rainier at the mystic season when summer and winter Consummate their nuptials, don't miss the wedding; it is a ceremony you will never forget. |