Verlot News

A walk around Seattle's Green Lake in memory of Susanna Stodden and Mary Cooper is scheduled for 8 tonight.

Jennifer Buchanan / The Herald Alyvia Wright, 4, hands freshly picked yard flowers to her grandmother, Ronda Wesson, owner of the Glacier Peak Cafe in Darrington, during the Sunday afternoon lunch rush at the ...

Above: Quoc Tran, of Seattle, spent Thursday mountain biking on Goat Lake Trail, then found a campsite along the South Fork of the Sauk River with a view of a waterfall coming off of Dickerman Mountain.

When the logging industry went sour in Darrington, the Snohomish County town of 1,500 hoped tourism would spur the economy.

It has been about five years since the partial closure of the Mountain Loop Hwy.

We do this thing here at I'll call it the switcheroo for the purposes of this blog-that's where one of us is pulling the plug on our headphones and making room for the next person to take to the airwaves. via KBSG-FM Seattle

“No. I don't count on anything anymore.”

Thursday is May 1, but on the last day of April there was more snow in some areas. via KING-TV Seattle

A 3.4 magnitude earthquake has been reported in rural Snohomish County. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington reports the shallow earthquake jolted the area at 11:40 a.m. Monday. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A minor earthquake shook the area east of Verlot, in Snohomish County on Monday morning. via KING-TV Seattle

“When the crews arrived on the seen, they found a house that was fully engulfed in flames and beginning to collapse in on itself”

Firefighters from Getchell, Granite Falls, Grill Valley, Lake Stevens, Lake Roesiger, and Arlington Heights were dispatched to a massive house fire on Saturday afternoon in Verlot. via The Lake Stevens Journal Online

Some firefighters sank waist deep in snow when they responded to a house fire about five miles east of the Verlot ranger stations on the Mountain Loop Highway in eastern Snohomish County. via KCPQ

“It was just an unusual situation up there that we haven't dealt with before”

Deep snow hindered firefighters as they battled a blaze that destroyed a house about five miles east of the Verlot ranger station, Getchell Fire Chief Travis Hots said. via The Herald

“There were from 10 to 25 students using the counselors at any one time.  There was a lot of need for the counselors.”

Emily Swanson was hiking Friday, on the trail to Lake 22, off the Mountain Loop Highway. Her group of eight hikers, all family and friends, were turned away from finishing their hike by bad weather.

On their way back, at 2:30 p.m., an avalanche started above them and engulfed four of the eight hikers.  One boy freed himself, and two girls were rescued by other group members.  But 13-year-old Emily could not be found.

The group searched for Emily for over an hour, then went to the Verlot visitors' center to call for help. Read more

“She didn't think of herself as superior.”

Emily Swanson was an athletic girl who loved soccer and softball, friends and family, hiking, snow and chocolate ice cream. via The Herald

“The fact that it could involve so much more snow, now we're talking about slides that could be six to eight feet deep”

It's one of the deadliest avalanche seasons we've ever seen in our state. The latest victim, a 13-year-old girl buried by a snow slide on Mt. via KCPQ

“A lot of the survivability has to do with the depth at which they were finally covered with the snow.”

Students at Harbor Point Middle School in Mukilteo are in mourning after a classmate died in an avalanche last week. via NWCN.com

A Mukilteo family is grieving after their 13-year-old daughter died in an avalanche in the mountains of Snohomish County. via KING-TV Seattle

Search and rescue volunteers are combing a remote area of Snohomish County for a 13-year-old girl swept away in an avalanche on Thursday. via KOMO News

VERLOT, Wash. - Searchers have found the body of a teenage girl who vanished in an avalanche near Mount Pilchuck in Snohomish County. via Daily News

“He can't save those guys, but he can save animals.”

Rest easy, mutt lovers. For fretful folks like Steve Duncan, the plight of the Mountain Loop Highway stray dog is resolved. via The Herald