MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. – A couple who died on a weekend camping trip in the northwest corner of Mount Rainier National Park were identified Tuesday as Robert and Frances Blakely, of Puyallup.

Robert, 44, and Frances, 46, had been camping at Ipsut Creek Campground with a friend, Debra Adams, whose age and hometown were unknown by park officials, said spokeswoman Lee Taylor.

Frances Blakely slipped and fell from a primitive log bridge into Ipsut Creek and her husband jumped in after her, Taylor said.

Searchers located the Blakelys midday Monday, about 200 feet downstream from where they fell in, and retrieved the husband’s body late Monday afternoon and the wife on Tuesday, Taylor said.

Ten park rangers, a King County helicopter and more than a dozen members of the Pierce County swift water rescue group were involved in the search and retrieval.

The surviving hiker told park officials the trio had planned on hiking out on Sunday, after camping one night at Ipsut Creek, but decided to stay one more night because of high water in the Carbon River.

Because of last fall’s storm damage, Taylor said the three would have had to cross the river to get to the campground at the end of the Carbon River road.

Ipsut Creek is the only campground open in the park this winter.

Adams was the first to cross the log around 8 a.m., about 50 yards downstream from the campground, Taylor said.

When her companions got into trouble, she ran down Carbon River Road in search of help.

She came across two park rangers about a mile down the road and they radioed for help at 9 a.m.

Rescuers were surprised to hear the accident happened in Ipsut Creek, which normally doesn’t run very deep, Taylor said.

Flows on the Carbon River, into which Ipsut Creek feeds, were at 804 cubic feet per second at 9 a.m. Monday, more than twice as fast as the river’s average flow of 328 cfs.