On Saturday the National Park Service officially reopened Mount Rainier National Park. The mountain had been closed to the public since the November storms.Roughly 200 people including Representatives Norm Dicks and Dave Reichert turned out for the ceremony. For more information about the day see here and here. Olympic National Park had similar good news, when it reopened the Hoh river road.
Yet, Saturday marks only the beginning, much work at Rainier, as well as Olympic and the North Cascades remains to be done.