[at-l] Winter in Washington....

[Mark Hudson]

*SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. -- *Two of three people who went on a hike in the
Cascades over the weekend were found dead on Tuesday. A third hiker
survived, officials told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.A Bellevue couple and a
friend -- all in their 30s -- were hiking on Saturday when an avalanche
buried them, officials told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Alison
Grande.One man was able to dig himself out, but he couldn't find his wife
and his friend. He crawled to his tent, where searchers found him Tuesday
morning.Officials said the survivor was hoisted from the area by an Army
helicopter and taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle early Tuesday
afternoon.Video from KIRO 7 Eyewitness News showed the man, who was
conscious and alert, being taken from the Army helicopter after it landed at
the hospital.The hikers disappeared near Snow Lake near the Alpental ski
area in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area of Snoqualmie Pass, about 50 miles
west of Seattle in the Cascade Mountains. The lake is at 4,000 feet
elevation.Two feet of new snow fell in the area on Saturday, forecasters
said.Four people in another group of missing hikers were located off the
Denny Creek trailhead. They left Sunday and the search began on Monday.
Their conditions also are unknown.

skeeter
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