Watch out for lahars!
We visited in ‘23, and agree that it is a beautiful place. We stayed a couple of nights @ Paradise Lodge. To me, what is appealing about Rainier is that the mountain has no other peaks around to distract from it. It’s very prominent.
Haha, I spent a week in Seattle a few years back. Flew in and out of SeaTac, went up in the Space Needle, Gig Harbor, Bainbridge Island, etc...all the sites... um, in a constant misty rain. Didn’t see Mt. Ranier once. Thought my last chance was going to be flying south and east out of the airport, had a window seat on the right side of the plane where Ranier would be as the plane banked eastward before the mountain and then... hit the cloud ceiling about 1000 feet in the air and didn’t see the ground until we were over the Rockies