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As the search for four people on Mount Rainier stretches into its second week, experts say the rewards for the hearty few who attempt the summit of the 14,411-foot heavily-glaciated volcano in winter are great — and so are the dangers.
Rescuers are hoping for better weather Saturday after a blizzard kept them from searching for four people missing on Washington's Mount Rainier.
A snowshoer who was lost in a blizzard for two days on Washington state's Mount Rainier said he stayed alive by digging out a snow tunnel and burning the dollar bills for warmth.
Margaret Anderson became a law enforcement officer with the National Park Service because she wanted to help people, and she put herself in the way of evil on New Year's Day because of her deep religious faith and love for others, her father told thousands of people Tuesday at her memorial service.
As scores of heavily armed officers scoured the woods south of Mount Rainier, hunting for the man who gunned down a national park ranger on New Year's Day, Natalia Martinez Paz and three friends were enjoying a glorious long weekend of snowshoeing and camping.
Relatives say Margaret Anderson — the Mount Rainier National Park ranger slain by a gunman — was living her dream, working at the same park as her ranger husband and raising their young family.
The fatal shooting of a Park Service ranger at Mount Rainier National Park has renewed debate about a nearly two-year-old federal law that allows loaded weapons in national parks.
Rangers and volunteers somberly embraced as Mount Rainier National Park reopened to the public Saturday for the first time since an Iraq War veteran shot and killed a park ranger there on New Year's Day.
A Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman says four rangers descended into a crevasse and retrieved the body of a 33-year-old climber and skier who had fallen more than 100 feet to his death.
A day of searching for a 57-year-old climber who unclipped his rope and vanished near Mount Rainier's summit has ended without locating the man, a National Park Service spokeswoman said Friday night.
Nearly a dozen people trekking to the summit of Mount Rainier were overtaken by an avalanche, but all except one were pulled from the snow by guides, officials said.
Mount Rainier National Park rangers have rescued two climbers who called for help after falling near Camp Muir, which is at about the 10,000-foot level of the 14,410-foot mountain.
When Jim Mora climbed Mount Rainier this summer as though it were a neighborhood knoll, he stood on the rugged peak looking to scale even more mountain.
Roger Goodell has reached the summit of Mount Rainier.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Seahawks coach Jim Mora are ready for a big trek — up Mount Rainier.
Searchers have found the bodies of three snowboarders missing since early December in a skiing area northeast of Mount Rainier in Washington state.
A hiker who lost his life on Mount Rainier lay down in the snow and used his body's warmth to protect his wife and a friend from the 70-mph winds of a freak June blizzard, national park officials said.
Mount Rainier National Park is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to activate a new bio toilet at Cougar Rock Campground.
Twin winter storms slam Pacific NorthwestThe southwest interior of Washington state, including the capital, Olympia, could be blanketed by 10 to 20 inches of snow, the weather service said, an increase from an earlier forecast of 5 to 10 inches.
Welcome to the land of jets, coffee, Bill Gates, Mount Rainier, and RAIN. The following list was made by many different contributors with their own observations about life in the Evergreen State. You know you are from Washington when...
Scientists study link of global warming at Mount RainierMcClatchy Newspapers reports: A slurry of rocks and mud sounded like a freight train when it ripped through a popular Mount Rainier hiking destination in 2001 and scared some television viewers who believed their homes were in the path.
It struck me like a hit-and-run car tossing me off the hood. This month makes it forty years since the first time I visited Mount Rainier.
I don't know if I was lucky or not that day. Twenty-five years ago I was camped near the highest point on the Wonderland Trail that surrounds Mount Rainier in Washington State - and I saw my one and only Unidentified Flying Object.
Volunteers rescue ravaged Mount Rainier National ParkThe record-breaking volunteer response to a storm that caused unprecedented damage at Mount Rainier National Park saved the park an estimated $1.2 million and expedited reopening certain areas, park officials say.
Anyone who lives in Washington State knows Mount Rainier IS Washington. Have no illusions. If Rainier suddenly exploded like Mount St Helens did, three-quarters of the population would leave in depression and disgust. As Rainier exists, so does the Evergreen State.
One of my favorite activities is to explore the Forest Service roads in Washington State. I have been on so many of them in the last thirty-five years, that I usually don't need a map anymore to find my way around.
Mount Rainier - Disaster In The MakingMount Rainier is not only the largest volcano in the US, but by far the most dangerous. The biggest concern isn't an eruption as one would think, but the collapse of the mountain itself.
Pesticides discovered in national park snowScientists have found chemicals normally used in agriculture in the snow on Mount Rainier and other Western national parks.
REVEALED: Three Finalists for the New Washington QuarterWell, I guess the second one is the nicest in my opinion. They're all kinda ugly, I think. Gov. Gregoire has the final say. Yippee.
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