Man Wearing Tennis Shoes in Fatal Fall on Mount Pilchuck

The Post Intelligencer reports Paul Toomey, 19, of Everett slid 700 feet downMount Pilchuck and then fell over a 200 foot cliff. Toomey was wearing tennis shoes and had gone off the trail when he lost his balance in slushy snow near a lookout at about the 5,000-foot level of the 5,324-foot mountain.