SEATTLE — The Summit at Snoqualmie, the busiest ski resort in Washington, has been sold to the owners of Crystal Mountain, the third most popular ski area in the state.
Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc., with headquarters in Vail, Colo., announced the sale Wednesday afternoon, saying it had agreed to sell The Summit at Snoqualmie and the Loon Mountain ski resort in New Hampshire to Michigan-based Boyne USA Inc.
The sale is expected to close by Sept. 30.
The resorts are reportedly exploring the possibility of a season pass that would work at both ski areas.
The Summit, located in the Cascade Mountains about 50 miles southeast of Seattle, has drawn an average of more than 463,000 visits per season since the 1997-98 season.
Crystal, on the northeastern edge of Mount Rainier, gets about 299,000 visitors per season over the past decade, while Stevens Pass, north of The Summit, has gotten about 399,000.
Pentagon says Yee’s case mostly proper
The Pentagon’s inspector general has concluded that for the most part, the Army properly handled the case of a Fort Lewis Muslim chaplain — once assigned to the U.S. pris on at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — who was detained for 76 days and then cleared in an espionage probe.
A two-page, unclassified executive summary released Wednesday said the investigation found only two mistakes: One, when a general overturned James Yee’s reprimand for committing adultery and downloading pornography; and two, when a deputy public affairs officer wrote a letter to The New York Times about the case.
The investigation was launched in mid-2004 at the request of Democratic lawmakers who questioned whether Yee was unfairly targeted because of his religion.
Man found dead in pot-growing home
A man was found dead in a booby-trapped house used for growing marijuana near Covington after another man confessed to a killing, authorities said.
The dead man’s girlfriend was found, bleeding from an apparent gunshot wound, nearby Monday evening and was being treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, King County sheriff’s deputies said.
According to the county’s online jail registry, Tri Minh Vo was booked into custody early Wednesday for investigation of first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Detectives waited to search the house Wednesday morning while a bomb squad was summoned, but the booby traps turned out to be nonexplosive, deputy Rodney Chinnick wrote in a news release.
The dead man, who also was apparently shot, and the wounded woman had been living in the home and had a young child who was away at the time of the shootings and was in the care of a relative, Chinnick said.
Bainbridge Island: Senator breaks pelvis
State Sen. Phil Rockefeller has undergone surgery to get two plates and 13 screws to repair his pelvis, which he broke in a fall from his roof.
Doctors have not said when Rockefeller, D-Bainbridge Island, will be able to leave Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Rockefeller, 68, was removing wasp and ants nests on his roof Sept. 9 and fell after his ladder gave way. His wife, Anita, said his pelvis broke into several pieces but that doctors say he’s healing well. He underwent surgery last week.
Rockefeller said he plans to return to Olympia for the legislative session that begins in January.
Olympia: Group runs ads against Rep. Baird
An anti-war group has run full-page ads in two newspapers in the district of Democratic U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, attacking his position on the Iraq war.
An open letter from retired Lt. Gen. Robert Gard said that keeping troops in Iraq is “an unacceptable risk.”
Baird voted against the war in 2002, but recently voted to begin redeploying some troops. He says conditions are improving and that Iraqis show progress toward standing on their own.
The ads were paid for by Win Without War, a coalition of organizations including MoveOn.org, an Internet-based liberal political action group. Win Without War refused to provide the cost for the ads that ran in The Olympian and The (Vancouver) Columbian.
The group will hold a town hall meeting in Vancouver, Wash., tonight.
Port Angeles: Missing hiker found
A missing hiker has been found safe in Olympic National Park.
Rangers say 60-year-old James Christian Strong of Oakland, Calif., was picked up by a helicopter this afternoon near Bear Pass. He had been slightly injured by a minor fall but declined treatment.
Strong had been reported overdue Sunday from a seven-day off-trail hike through remote terrain in the Bailey Range.
Associated Press
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