A lavishly-illustrated guide to 125 hiking trails in Mt. Rainier National Park, this book has the only complete coverage of all of the trails in this trail-rich park. Nearly 400 photographs and 16 easy-to-read maps enhance the text, which gives all the nitty-gritty details, but also relates interesting things about the natural history (and human history) of the glorious scenery of this mountain paradise.
Paul Hodge is an astronomer and author who has published 25 books, most on astronomy, but five on hiking and mountains. He is best known for his work on
the nature and contents of galaxies. His discoveries and analyses of nearby galaxies have provided new understanding of their histories and their origin. Using telescopes that have been among the largest in the world, he was the discover or co-discoverer and cataloger of more than 20, 000 objects in other galaxies, including ionized hydrogen clouds, star clusters, galaxies, dark nebulae and variable stars.
As a sideline Hodge did some pioneering research on the subject of interplanetary dust, carrying out his first experiments in the mid-1950's. While at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory he designed the first aircraft-borne meteoritic dust collector, which was flown on a U2 high-altitude airplane. In 2001 the asteroid 14466 was named "hodge" in his honor.
