We finally got to see some good views of Mt. Rainier our last day there. We drove up to Sunrise, the highest place you can drive to in Mt. Rainier park, to see it. It was strange that the mountain that we look at so often on clear days from our back porch turned out to be so difficult to see up close. Between the mountains that are around it (which we never imagined were there from what we've seen from our place and from Seattle), and the clouds consistently socking it in, we weren't sure we'd see it at all. It's pretty formidible up close.