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Mount Rainier welcomes Washingtonians home

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 .

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