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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If you’re looking for a reason to get out, consider stopping in for “Green Drinks” on Dec. 4, sponsored this month by the Tahoma Audubon Society.
Each month, members of the local environmental community get together to have a few drinks and meet new people.
“We don’t try to solve any problems, sign you up to testify for anything or ask you for money,” said Bryan Flint, executive director for the Tahoma Audubon Society, in an e-mail announcing the event. “Just fun, like-minded people enjoying holiday cheer.”
The December event will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Woody's on the Water, 1715 Dock St., Tacoma. It is next door to the Museum of Glass.
Crews are now using hydraulic jaws mounted on an excavator to chew away at the old visitor center at Mount Rainier National Park.
Cews continue to tear down the old visitor center at Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park. The demolition is expected to be completed by late next week.
Work with the 4,500-pound wrecking ball was finished on Friday. Eric Walkinshaw, project manager for the park, said the contractor was able to collapse the top of the building.
Now they are using the jaws to rip through the concrete and metal.
“The constractor said he thinks they will have the whole building down by the end of next week,” Walkinshaw said.
Once all the metal pipes, rebar and copper sheathing is removed from the rubble, the concrete will be used to fill in the building’s basement, Walkinshaw said.
Next spring, work will be done to convert the area in to additional parking spaces in the lower parking lot.
There might not be much snow in the Washington cascades right now, but they are skiing nearby in British Columbia.
Today is opening day at Whistler. Blackcomb opens tomorrow.
As for us in Washington, keep doing those snow dances or prayers or whatever it is that works for you.
Crystal Mountain has just five inches at the summit and three inches at the base.
This morning's 9:30 webcam pic:
