Internet Users Can Take a Peek at the Peak -- View of Mount Adams has been put on the Internet

Yakima Herald-Republic | October 31, 1998| | Copyright

The U.S. Forest Service has taken one of the joys of living in the Yakima Valley - the inspiring view of Mount Adams - and put it on the Internet.

The Northwest's second-highest peak now has its own cybercam, beaming live, year-round pictures to the computer screens of mountaineers and nature lovers around the world. The address of the Mount Adams VolcanoCam is: www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mta/volcanocam/ By capturing the 12,276-foot mountain in the lens of a camera in Gifford Pinchot National Forest and displaying it on the World Wide Web, Forest Service officials hope to provide an easy way for ...

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