New Bridge Will Provide Access to Hiking Trail

In a report he wrote last week, Mount Rainier National Park volunteer George Coulbourn expressed concern that he was seeing lots of hikers clad in tennis shoes. Coulbourn works in the Carbon River backcountry... "If you're going to put forth the effort to go hiking, do the right thing both for yourself and the environment: Wear a good pair of boots, and use hiking poles. You'll have more fun, and you'll look like you know what you're doing."

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