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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The Nisqually Road in Mount Rainier National Park will reopen Friday morning, a day earlier than expected.
The road, and the park, have been closed since Nov. 12 when Kautz Creek jumped its banks and flood the main road into the park.
Park crews were able to complete the repairs late Thursday to allow the road to open at 6 a.m., said park superintendent Dave Uberuaga.
During the heavy rains Nov. 11-12, Kautz Creek again jumped its channel upstream and changed course from the channel created during the 2006 flood. Water over the the roadway was eight inches deep and cut into the road edges.
The 2006 channel now is dry streambed and the new channel is about 100 feet to the east of the previous channel, emptying into the two 12-foot culverts that were put in place in 2006 to handle the stream flow. Park crews trenched the new channel to divert the water from the road and into the new culverts, Uberuaga said.
Other damage in the area remains, including the access road to the Kautz Creek utility area, work at Tahoma Creek, Longmire and park other areas.
