We heard there was a small slide on Highway 165 up in the Mount Rainier area Tuesday morning.

The slide was just before the bridge coming out of Carbonado, according to the national park.

The State Patrol reports there were some fallen rocks earlier but it is now clear.

TNT Adventure writer Craig Hill just forwarded us this link, which takes you to a slideshow of damage inside the National Park.

This little item comes to L & S from our adventure reporter Craig Hill, who's been tracking the flood damage and recovery efforts at Mount Rainier.

Flooding at Mount Rainier National Park will create an interesting chore for one not so lucky employee.
This employee will get to add the title “pooper scooper” to their resume after the Nisqually River washed away the Sunshine Point campground.

Among the picnic tables and 18 campsites washed away was a pit toilet. The toilet is now someplace downstream.

Park biologist Barbara Samora says the runaway toilet is not good for the environment and will need to be recovered.

She’s unsure if it will be a park or state employee who’ll get this chore dumped on them.

WSDOT reports that Highway 410 has reopened from mile post 74.5 (Morse Creek Gate) to milepost 57.5 (gate at Crystal Mountain Boulevard), after crews cleared rock and mudslides.

Speaking of the fire, officials shut down the Carbon River Road – aka Fairfax Forest Reserve Road – Monday to keep the looky-loos out of the fire zone.

Good plan, but it practically shuts down the Carbon River entrance to Mount Rainier National Park and limits access to some back-country areas of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, including the Clearwater Wilderness.

Can anybody suggest some good alternate routes for getting into those areas? Are there any, short goat trail? Please post here.