CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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Here is this week's photo. I took this as the wrecking ball took bites out of the roof of the old Jackson Visitor Center. I thought I would share it with readers since the Nisqually Road is still closed.
Concrete, metal and other debris flies as a 4,500-pound wrecking ball crashes through the roof of the old Jackson visitor center at Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park.
It was amazing to watch the crane operators aim the wrecking ball, which weighs 4,500 pounds, to hit exactly where they wanted.
It was just as cool to watch the ball literally bounce off the roof a couple of times. How can something the weight of a pick up truck not punch through the roof?
With the road closed, the best way to track the progress is through one of the Paradise Web cams. Of course, since I posted the link yesterday it has been either too dark or too foggy to see much. I just checked the camera, and you can see a ghostly image of the center in the latest shot from the west end of the new visitor center.
Dave Ellis, the deputy director at Northwest Trek, is scheduled to be on tonight’s episode of “Weird, True and Freaky” on Animal Planet.
A production crew from Animal Planet visited the wildlife park outside of Eatonville last August. They interviewed Ellis about the rut behavior of animals such as deer and elk, and other animal activities.
According to Animal Planet’s Web site, the show looks at “some of the strangest, craziest, real-life stories on four legs.”
Ellis is supposed to be in the “Mob Mentality” portion of the episode.
The show is to air at 8 and 11 p.m. today, 3 a.m. Wednesday, 3 p.m. on Saturday, 8 and 11 p.m. Sunday and 3 a.m. Monday.
You can learn more about the show and see cliips by clicking here.
