I’m glad to hear you enjoy the photos so much, thanks for sharing that, and for your kind words. And yes, it really is an awesome sight, to see this mountain.

Unfortunately, politicians LOVE having their names on things .. so most of the money that goes to places like National Parks ends up being for new construction projects, like Visitor Centers and exhibits, not for anything that actually benefits the park - it’s pretty hard to name something “the Ted Stevens Backcountry Ranger Program” for example.

On the naming issue, it strikes me at how almost every native name for a place is a description of the place or something like that - one of my favorites in your part of the world is the Nantahala Gorge - “Nantahala” being a Cherokee word that translates as “Land of the noonday sun” - the steep sides of the valley mean the bottom of the gorge doesn’t get much direct sun until the middle of the day. Fortunately, we also use that name for the place, but in general, we don’t do this.

Cheers

Carl