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| Monopole | Great Weather  Date Climbed: Mar 18, 2010 | |
| Excellent climb up the South Side (up the ski trails from Timberline lodge, via Hogsback and the Pearly Gates). Clear, blue skies and winds in single digits. | |
| Posted Apr 4, 2011 11:55 pm | ||
| Ilafan | Perfect Day! | |
| Oh Hell no I didn't get to the top, but I don't care. Mt. Hood rules. It was July, and kids were snowboarding! I was in snow in July, and I was freezing my Minnesota ass off. Fabulous! Mt. Hood is so majestic and regal. The lodge was great, the views unbelievable, and the Pacific Ocean I waded in after the hike was splendid. Perfect! | |
| Posted Mar 8, 2011 8:03 pm | ||
| weeds19 | Group Climb Date Climbed: May 29, 2003 | |
| We climbed up from Timberline and camped on the mountain just above the ski lifts. A quick glissade down was a highlight of the day! | ||
| Posted Feb 24, 2011 10:38 am | ||
| brizza | Old Chute Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2010 | |
| Climbed w/ Tim and Mike. Great day. | |
| Posted Feb 18, 2011 7:37 pm | ||
| CarloMarx | Turned away:( Date Climbed: May 17, 2009 | |
| Made an attempt with TMG...lots of ice and rock fall, so no summit. I'll be back! | |
| Posted Feb 13, 2011 2:34 pm | ||
| bernardhohman | Finally Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010 | |
| Finally stood on the summit after three tries--two by way of the Cooper Spur. A softball-sized rock nearly broke my shin on the Spur, so we climbed the south route instead. Beautiful. | |
| Posted Feb 12, 2011 9:21 pm | ||
| triyoda | Old Chute Date Climbed: May 16, 2009 | |
| Made the summit at sunrise. Only party that beat me to the top was a guided party that rode in the Snowcat. Nobody ever mentioned the sulfur smell. | |
| Posted Jan 30, 2011 11:52 pm | ||
| LadyWawa | Live to Climb Another Day Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2010 | |
| My first attempt on Hood was not successful! I went the Southside/Hogsback way and there just wasn't enough snow! Turned back at the gates seeing as there was no snow to climb, only rock (which by the time I made it up there) was already bulleting towards me and denting my helmet with small and NOT SO SMALL rocks (i.e. large boulders). I considered going the alternate route from there but it was getting late and I decided that Mt. Hood and I would have a rematch some other day when I wasn't exhausted and pelted extremely. Also, by that time I had way too much fumerole exposure and I needed to get out of there. But I will say this. There was absolutely nobody else on the mountain that day (even though it was clear) which was strange also. I anticipated it being very busy but I saw no one. | |
| Posted Jan 27, 2011 10:38 am | ||
| ZeeJay | Rain Date Climbed: May 23, 2000 | |
| With MM. Felt like crap after an 11.5 hr drive to the trailhead. We were going to start at midnight but decided to sleep in the car until 3. We got virtually no sleep as it was one car door slamming after another all night long. When I signed the registration form at 4, people were already returning from failed attempts. We didn't get started until 4:45 in the drizzle and then steady rain. The wind was howling and there was no shelter from it whatsoever. A huge herd of people emerged out of the mist on their way down, having given up due to the bad weather. It stopped raining by the time we got to the Hogsback but everything was completely socked in. Crossing the bergschrund was trivial, but the ascent to the top was on very solid ice, but fortunately there were lots of steps and we were able to use the holes from other people's ice axe plants. It miraculously cleared up on the top and we had nice weather on the way down. At the bottom my feet were so soaked that I was pouring water out of my plastic boots. | |
| Posted Jan 26, 2011 5:13 pm | ||
| Josh Lewis | Old Chute Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010 | |
| A bit of ice near the end, but with being careful I was alright. Would like to come back here one of these days. | |
| Posted Jan 12, 2011 5:01 pm | ||
| ExcitableBoy | Various routes | |
| Sandy Headwall, Sandy Couloir, Hogsback, Leutholds Couloir, Reid Glacier Headwall, North Face | |
| Posted Dec 26, 2010 9:15 am | ||
| iquest4it | Winter Climbs Date Climbed: Mar 19, 2010 | |
| I've been climbing Mt. Hood for over 15 years now, and I've learned that the winter is the only time worth being on the south side. No crowds, no postholes, no one to floss you off the face, and no rocks or ice chucks barreling down at you all the time. | |
| Posted Dec 24, 2010 9:30 pm | ||
| letskeepmovin | South Route Date Climbed: Aug 3, 1997 | |
| Climbed it at least 5 times as prep for Rainier. The Pearly Gates never got old :). | |
| Posted Dec 21, 2010 7:57 pm | ||
| mansfieo | Nice Climb | |
| Best part was the soak in T-Line lodge Hot Tub afterwards | |
| Posted Dec 19, 2010 5:23 am | ||
| tonybell1 | Me and Ryan Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2009 | |
| Perfect day! | |
| Posted Nov 16, 2010 12:42 am | ||
| DCcoug | Sunshine Route Date Climbed: Jun 24, 1998 | |
| Great climb - beautiful section of the mountain. Our guide started to give me the willies right when we were trying to get around the bergschrund on the north side. I guess all's well that ends well in this instance. Decided to drive back to Seattle that night and became well acquainted with the shoulder warnings on I-5 each time I nodded off. I'm an idiot. | |
| Posted Sep 3, 2010 5:41 pm | ||
| jonesa37 | Werd Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2010 | |
| Climbed with pat up the south side route to the devil's kitchen head wall. started at 1:00 am with 1 hour sleep and made it to the summit by 6 am. | |
| Posted Aug 11, 2010 10:30 am | ||
| seano | Standard route Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2010 | |
| Badly sun-cupped chute. Amazingly, I had the summit to myself for about 10 minutes, then shared it for about an hour with two other guys who wanted to ski/board it. I thought it was supposed to be crowded. | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2010 1:30 pm | ||
| blueshade | Mt. Hood Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2010 | |
| Climbed via the standard Hogsback route. Pretty easy climb compared to many of the other mountains because of shorter distance and elevation. Final climb steep but not too bad, several turned around when they saw it though. | |
| Posted Aug 2, 2010 11:41 am | ||
| Diggler | Great day on the roof of OR Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2010 | |
| Sunshine route (Elliot Glacier) Started out from Cloud Cap campground @ 4.43. As we'd just gotten there in the dark, somewhat disoriented- took some walking around to figure out the correct way to go. Further confused by sign saying trail @ river crossing impassable. Fortunately, not too much thought was put into it & we just kept going (never discovered what they were talking about). Before we knew it, we were on the ridge above timberline, looking at the sun catching up to us, with the hulking masses of St. Helens & Adams looming behind us- awesome surroundings! Roped up at an island below headwall leading to bench below main body of glacier. Passing below main icefall surreal- I'd never been at such close range to such an impressive glacial phenomenon! Climb up to Cathedral Ridge past Horseshoe Rock the most interesting part of climb- traversing & climbing steep slush directly over the huge 'schrund (glad we didn't test those pickets!) airy & thought-provoking! Quite relieved once we attained Cathedral Ridge... Some delicate ridge traversing directly adjacent some enormous cornices & we were at the top of Oregon! Summited at 13.17. Hung out & enjoyed the phenomenal views from the top, while enjoying some brew & snacks. Left summit ~14.30. As I didn't desire to downclimb the route we'd ascended after it had gotten even slushier, we made the decision to descend the S side. After taking awhile to identify the correct features of the route, I concluded that there was no way I wanted to descend the steep, slushy nightmare of the Pearly Gates. After some traversing the way back whence we'd come, we downclimbed a variation conveniently situated between 2 debris paths. When looking down from below, it seemed to be one of 2 of the different S side variations. While it was steep (we faced in while downclimbing until shortly above the exit to Devils Kitchen), I was glad we chose this way while watching countless discharges from the rocks & walls above. Besides Faith getting a headache from the notable sulfur emissions, the remainder of the way down was uneventful. Bergschrund on the standard route was absolutely enormous! Got to Timberline maybe 6ish. Then came the adventure of getting back to my truck, some 30 miles away... Great day on an amazing peak with wonderful company! | |
| Posted Jul 20, 2010 1:43 pm | ||
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