Just in time for the holiday weekend, a storm front is rolling in with some fresh snow.

A winter weather advisory in effect at Mount Rainier from 4 p.m. today through 10 p.m. Saturday.

A front will bring increasing rain and snow to the park this afternoon and tonight, said the National Weather Service forecast. Significant snowfall will continue Saturday as an upper level trough moves into the region.

The snow level will fall to 2,000 feet through the Monday holiday, about the elevation of the Nisqually entrance to the park.

The forecast calls for 7-10 inches of new snow …

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Single? Love might be waiting for you on a chairlift in Oregon.

Mount Hood Meadows is hosting its annual  “Chairway 2 Heaven” – speed dating on its Blue chairlift this Sunday.

The lift will have two “singles” lines, one for women and one for men. People from each line will be randomly paired for a lift ride. When the ride continues at the top of the hill, the couple decide if they want to continue skiing together or hop back in line for another speed date.

The event is from noon to 4 p.m. and is free for those who have …

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Alpental ski area on Snoqualmie Pass will unveil its new two-story David Pettigrew Mountain Safety and Education Center on Saturday afternoon. The 30-minute ceremony will start at 2 p.m. with a tour to follow.

The mid-mountain center will serve as a meeting place for mountain safety and avalanche courses and as an additional ski patrol outpost and dispatch center.

The center is named in honor of David Pettigrew, a long-time snowboarder who died in a snowboarding accident at Alpental in 2005.

“The new structure will meet a growing need for additional meeting space to host a series of popular, free …

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Josh Dueck, a 31-year-old member of the Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team and a 2010 Paralympic silver medalist, became the first person to complete a back flip on a sit ski on Feb. 3 in Whistler, B.C.

Dueck broke his back in 2004 when he overshot a jump. His injuries resulted in the loss of use of both of his legs.

FreeRider Trailer – Featuring Kyle Miller from Crest Pictures.

Aaron Swaney, an Everett Herald and Outdoor News Group writer, recently profiled Kent-native Kyle Miller. The trailer from Miller’s movie is above.  Here is Swaney’s feature:

As a boy growing up in Western Washington, Kyle Miller didn’t have a lot of time for the outdoors. Instead of enjoying the majestic mountains looming not far from his door, he grew up sitting around watching TV, playing video games and living a fairly sedentary lifestyle.

Then he discovered snowboarding.

As a 19-year-old, Miller ventured up to the mountains with some

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Perhaps nobody will be more excited to turn the page on their calendar tonight than the staff at Mount Rainier National Park.

“I would say if there was one word to describe (how the staff is feeling) it would be ‘weary,’” said park volunteer and outreach manager Kevin Bacher. “I’ve heard so many people say, ‘I can’t wait for this winter to be over.’ ”

January has been one of the most tragic months in the 113-year history of the park, but it’s also had some incredible moments. But through the ups and downs it has been consistently emotional.

On …

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The road to Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park opened at 8 a.m. for the first weekend since Jan. 14, when seven people became lost in severe storm conditions.

Three day hikers on snowshoes survived two frigid nights on the mountains, including two featured in today’s News Tribune, while two campers and two mountaineers still have not been found.

The search for the missing four is now considered a “extended, limited, continuous search,” but as many as eight park rangers are searching the Muir Snowfield today for signs of the people.

With the first large group …

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Reeve Petersen was one of about 200 people stranded at Crystal Mountain on Thursday and Friday and he couldn’t have been happier.

“I heard the road might be open tomorrow,” Petersen said this morning after a powder run, “but secretly we’re hoping it’s not.”

Unfortunately for Petersen and fortunately for other skiers and snowboarders around the South Sound, State Route 410 was expected to reopen this evening. Downed trees forced the closure of the road between Federation Forest and Enumclaw early Thursday morning.

“It is awful,” Crystal Mountain spokeswoman Tiana Enger said, feigning distress. “All this powder and nobody to …

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