Rainier, The Mountain, Tahoma, Tacoma, Ti’Swaq’ the Sky Wiper, the Mountain that Wipes Clean the Sky, the Giant Volcano…all different names for the same geological beast. There are other names, too. We live under the Volcano in “Pugetopolis,” the Greater Puget Sound/Salish Sea Metropolitan Area. Ti’Swaq’ wipes clean our Cascading skies at 14,410 feet in height or 4,392.5 meters tall. Some sources, however, claim the Volcano is as high as 14,411 feet or as low as 14,408 feet. Changing snow and ice accumulations and rockfall may have something to do with such debates. It’s just a giant mountain, bigger in bulk than any of the Himalayan giants tho bereft of a high plateau like Everest and K2. Only the Hawaiian Volcanoes are more massive as those entire islands are individual mountains rising from the seafloor.