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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Former Mount Rainier National Park superintendent Jon Jarvis will be nominated by President Obama to be the new director of the park service, according to a statement released today by the White House.
Jarvis served at Mount Rainier National Park from 1999 to 2002. He is currently the Pacific West Region director for the park service.
Here's a statement from the National Park Service:
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised President Obama’s announcement that he intends to nominate Jonathan Jarvis to be director of the National Park Service. Jarvis, a 30-year veteran of the Park Service, currently is the regional director of the agency’s Pacific West Region.
“President Obama has made an outstanding choice for director of the National Park Service,” Salazar said. “There is no substitute for experience, and Jon Jarvis has three decades of hands-on experience in our parks that will be invaluable as we seek to reinvigorate and improve our National Park System in time for its 100th anniversary in 2016.”
OK, if you're riding the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic tomorrow morning you better check the forecast.
The National Weather Service is calling for highs of 84 in Centralia on Saturday and a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms along the route Sunday.
In other words drink lots of fluids and be prepared for everything.
I'll be riding with a couple of friends doing their first STP (This will be my fourth) and I will post something from Portland ... if I make it that far.
So I took my son along yesterday morning for a little hiking at Rainier for part of the Rainier 110 project. This is the 110th anniversary of Mount Rainier National Park and I'm celebrating by hiking 110 miles in the park. I'll be posting dispatches here and in the paper.
So far I've bagged 56.9 miles.
Here are pics from the four hikes I did with my 8-year-old son, Alex.
1. Deer Creek Falls, 1 mile (Off Highway 123)
2. Grove of the Patriarhs, 1.5 miles (Near Ohanapecosh)
3. Silver Falls Loop, 3 miles (At Ohanapecosh)
4. Dege Peak, 3 miles (Between Sunrise and Sunrise Point.)
