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Near the summit of Chinook Pass in the Cascades, and very near Mt Rainier, is this beautiful vista. The winter has just started and in several more weeks the Pass will close for the winter. The snows here can reach up to 45 ft. deep. Even so life will go on underneath all that snow. Mice will burrow tunnels and weasels will chase them. In the late spring the snows will melt and a new carpet of wildflowers will bloom and grow.