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Flashback Friday: Mount Rainier National Park celebrates 100th birthday KOMO News Staff On March 2, 1899 Mount Rainier National Park was established as the country s fifth national park. A 100th birthday celebration with a 230 pound replica cake of the mountain was held on March 2, 1999. In attendance was then governor Gary Locke and Lou Whittaker, a world renowned mountaineer who climbed to the summit of Mount Rainier over 250 times. Caption: Flashback Friday: Mount Rainier National Park celebrates 100th birthday That same year, KOMO News interviewed Floyd Schmoe who at 103 was older than the national park. Schmoe and his wife Ruth moved to Mount Rainier National Park in 1919 after World War I. ....