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Article: RAINIER'S PARK ENDURES PEAK LOAD.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 17, 1999
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Washington's high hiking places have long been seen as opportunities to escape crowds, controls and congestion.
But the 235,612 acres of Mount Rainier National Park have become the state's most closely regulated and most jammed alpine environment - from the packed parking lot at Paradise to climbers squeezed in at the Thumb Rock bivouac, 10,775 feet up on Liberty Ridge.
``The regulation of Mount Rainier is pretty extreme and the issue driving it is the number of people wanting to partake of a fabulous place,'' said Tim McNulty, co-author of ``Washington's Mount Rainier National Park: A Centennial Celebration'' (The Mountaineers, 144 pages, $35).
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