It was their last “resort.”

A family’s alpine excursion ended on a low point after their accommodation shuttered over safety violations, leaving them without a place to stay for the night.

Sarah Ruppenthal, her husband and two teenage sons had departed the Gateway Inn in Ashford, Washington in the early hours of August 5th so they could hike around Mount Rainier, SFGate reported. It was part of a larger loop through the Pacific Northwest that they had been planning for months.

What was supposed to be a day of enjoying the Evergreen State’s preeminent mountain — which ascends to a breathtaking 14,410 feet above sea level — quickly went awry…

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