Rainier worker’s body believed found

LONGMIRE, Wash. – A body found Monday in Mount Rainier National Park appears to be that of a missing park worker originally from Illinois.

Darcy Quick, 22, failed to return from a hike on Friday evening. After a helicopter spotted a body at the base of Comet Falls on Monday morning, a ground crew confirmed that it matched the description of the missing woman, said Lee Taylor, a park spokeswoman.

Taylor said formal confirmation of the identification would come from the Pierce County medical examiner. A medical examiner’s spokesman said Monday evening his office had not yet received the body.

Quick, a Chicago-area native who recently graduated from Hope College in Holland, Mich., had been at the park for a summer job at National Park Inn. After graduation, Quick worked with a Christian ministry in the park and was employed as a receptionist in the lodge lobby, her sister, Amanda Andrus, told the Chicago Tribune for a story on its Web site Monday.

Andrus, who lives in Michigan, told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald that she and her sister grew up in Oregon and Washington and their parents moved to the western Chicago suburb of Winfield about four years ago.

Quick’s parents had flown to Washington after learning she was missing and remained there Monday.