Sorry to hear your friend got hit. I grew up at Mt. Rainier and the roads really are not safe for bicycle riders at all. There are no shoulders on most of the roads and there are quite a number of spots where the dropoff is several hundred feet.

He should have reported the hit and run to the rangers with a description of the car. They probably would have tracked them down easily.

The Scots are tougher. They eat haggus (sp?).

Aussies are tough. As are backwoods raised Americans.

@LibertyNews - It was one of those "happened too quick" moments. The best description I could muster was "something like a dark green Subaru Legacy" and no licence plate. I might as well say, "I saw a man and his dog", it'd be so generic on Mt. Rainier. I saw them come up in the rear view mirror, thought they were coming in a bit close and got clipped by their mirror on the bar end. I actually radioed ahead to my support vehicle to take their plate down, but they were out of range :(

@Rob: I eat haggis too :). And snake, and crocodile, and kangaroo...