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"Stalking the wild Rainier by canoe is a risky business.
You really have to get into the swim of things.”
1 Undaunted by his previous failure to capture a wild
Mountain Fresh Rainier. Mickey Rooney teamed up
with former Husky Coach Jim Owens and two
professional Freshstalkers to search for that elusive
MFR. Says Mickey, “There’s 90 gallons of naturally
brewed Rainier sloshing around out there somewhere
and I’m gonna pop its top.
3
“We backpaddled hard
and put into shore rapidly.
The Rainier reared up,
sloshed its neck spiritedly,
then charged. I took a
valiant swing at the
creature, hut my feet got
tangled in the gear we had
lashed aboard. It was a
watery finish to our length}
search. But the beer
pictographs we found on
shore proved that MFRs
had long been hunted in
the area.
2 “This time, we were on
Oregon’s Clackamas River
for six weeks before finally
closing in on that Mountain
Fresh baby. I was confident
that Big Jim’s coaching
experience would inspire the
perfect game plan for our
offensive attack. Suddenly,
there it was!
“Later, the Coach and I
toasted our adventure with smaller
Rainiers we had ported in with us.
They were smaller than their wild
counterparts, but light and fresh
enough to make up for our loss!’
Wherever you go in the
Northwest, Rainier is there to
welcome you with a Mountain
Fresh taste that never stops
pleasing. For nearly a century
it’s been in a class by itself.