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In a photo provided by Mount Rainier National Park, Yong Chun Kim, 66, of Tacoma, smiles after he was rescued Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 on Mount Rainier after being missing since Saturday. He was reported missing on Saturday after he fell down a slope and became separated from a group he was leading in the Paradise area, a popular high-elevation destination on the mountain's southwest flank, about a 100-mile drive south from Seattle. A rescue team reached Yong Chun Kim on Monday afternoon but it took nine hours to bring him from the rugged terrain covered in deep snow to a road, spokeswoman Lee Taylor said late Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Mount Rainier National Park)

Missing snowshoer near Mount Rainer found alive

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 11:32am

SEATTLE -- A 66-year-old snowshoer who was missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday afternoon by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.

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Paper coffee cups dropped from copter warned Rainier campers of suspect on loose

Craig Welch The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 6:40pm

It was Monday morning, Jan. 2, and the four Seattle hikers were more than halfway through a beautiful weekend of winter camping at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington.

Now someone in a chopper was barking a garbled message through a loudspeaker.

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Mount Rainier staff meets to grieve loss of ranger

Gene Johnson The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 3:02pm

SEATTLE -- Employees at Mount Rainier National Park are gathering together Tuesday to grieve the loss of a park ranger who was fatally shot inside the park.

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This undated photo provided by Mount Rainier National Park shows park Ranger Margaret Anderson. Anderson, 34, was fatally shot Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state, according to the National Park Service. Officials closed the park after the shooting Sunday, and asked people to stay out of the area while they search for a man carrying a long rifle. (AP Photo/Mount Rainier National Park)

Slain park ranger met husband while working at Bryce Canyon

Steve Miletich The Seattle Times

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 1:46pm

Margaret Anderson and her husband, Eric, were living their dream, finally working as U.S. park rangers in the same national park while raising a young family, their relatives said.

"They had been looking for that for a long time, to be in the same park," Margaret Anderson's father, the Rev. Paul Kritsch, said in a telephone interview.

Kritsch, a Lutheran minister in Scotch Plains, N.J., recalled his 34-year-old daughter's life, after she was fatally shot while working at her law-enforcement job in Mount Rainier National Park.

"As you can well imagine, it doesn't seem real," he said of her death.

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Pierce County Sheriff's detective and spokesman Ed Troyer, center, talks to reporters as Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King, second from right, and FBI Agent Steven Dean, right, look on, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in Washington state. Park Ranger Margaret Anderson was shot and killed Sunday during a traffic stop in the park, and the body of her alleged killer was recovered from a creek in the park Monday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Body believed to be gunman found in Mount Rainer

Mike Baker The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 12:13pm

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — Mount Rainier National Park remained closed Tuesday following the discovery of the body of the suspected gunman in the fatal shooting of a park ranger that has devastated the close-knit group of park workers.

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All visitors evacuated from Mt. Rainier; gunman sought

Mike Baker The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 2, 2012 - 9:49am

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — About 125 people were evacuated overnight from the visitors center at Mount Rainier National Park as authorities searched the snowy terrain for an armed gunman suspected of killing a park ranger.

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