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Originally Posted by Doug
"Typical" is what is misleading. I lived in Seattle for 4 years as a kid and then another 4 as an adult. Ranier absolutely dominates the Seattle area when skies are exceptionally clear, which is almost never. The same can be said about Hood and St. Helens over Portland and to a lesser extent Baker over the Lower Mainland. I've seen days in Portland when St. Helens, Hood and Adams seemed so close you could almost touch them.
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It's a neat effect. On clear days in Winter, the Sleeping Giant looks so big you think it can't be any more than 3 or 4 miles away, but add some heat and humidity and it seems to shrink away.