Dec 19, '14; Mt. Rainier, a new page? Or not?

The plow operators were out bright and early, had Paradise parking lot plowed by 7:45, Longmire gate open at 9 a.m.

Awesome!

Didn't it snow?

well, the Park has been doing well in plowing and posting; they gave early notification of a late opening yesterday (Sunday) but today's twitter feed:

"The gate to Paradise at Longmire will not open today due to a shortage in
staffing required to ensure public safety. Longmire is open. – mm"

I hope we won't see a return to routine mid-week closures.

The park service has been doing an admirable job of early AM twitter updates with estimated openings.... really does seem like they've listened to the public requests for more info.

As for today- perhaps they got a some flack for the initial 'staffing shortage' tweet, cause they've since added more detail- sounds like there's an ongoing SAR operation. I think we can all appreciate them needing to divert their limited resources to a search mission...maybe in the future they can include that amount of information so its a little easier to understand why the road would be shut down without much/any advance notice.

The park service has been doing an admirable job of early AM twitter updates with estimated openings.... really does seem like they've listened to the public requests for more info.

As for today-  perhaps they got a some flack for the initial 'staffing shortage' tweet, cause they've since added more detail- sounds like there's an ongoing SAR operation.  I think we can all appreciate them needing to divert their limited resources to a search mission...maybe in the future they can include that amount of information so its a little easier to understand why the road would be shut down without much/any advance notice.       

Yes, they finally put that on twitter after getting a huge amount of flack from local business and frustrated citizens--could have been avoided by posting the SAR early; people understand the need for quick concerted action in SAR.