The annual Mount Ripinsky Run was cancelled due to safety concerns following a two-inch rainfall, but many other Independence Day festivities went on as planned in Haines.
Paul Swift, a longtime mountaineer, cancelled the run early July 4 after heavy rain July 2-3. “I didn’t want people to go up there and race over all those slippery rocks. It’s not a life-or-death thing, so I decided to just call it (off),” he said.
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