"When I set out to cover the effort to save Olympic National Park’s Enchanted Valley Chalet last week, I thought the toughest part would be the 13-mile hike. Worse, I found after six hours on the trail, was a bizarre blockade on press freedom – the likes of which I’d never experienced outside a military base or murder scene. ...

It had the makings of a great story. Strangely enough, it was a story the park service wanted told through one person – Rainey McKenna, a spokeswoman sent from park HQ to handle the likes of me."

Tristan Baurick of the Kitsap Sun reports in his Trails & Tides blog September 17, 2014. [2]