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Mount Rainier welcomes Washingtonians home

Mount Rainier as seen from an Alaska Airlines flight between Seattle and Spokane. (Rich Landers)
Mount Rainier as seen from an Alaska Airlines flight between Seattle and Spokane. (Rich Landers)

TRAVEL -- Normally I'm thrilled and filled with hope for adventures to come when I return from a far away place and fly past Mount Rainier, the state's great "Welcome to Washington" ambassador.

This time: bittersweet.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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