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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (45595)2/24/2006 12:35:18 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
I climbed Hood about 1977 or thereabouts.

Tell your friend to leave Timberline Lodge about midnight. That way you get to the top about 6 or 7 am, and are back down before the snow softens up. You can do it later, but that's what we did and it was fine. Our climb was in June, as I recall.

The weather can turn bad pretty fast up there. I forget when, but in the 80s a school party got messed up coming down and were trapped in a snowcave in the Whitewater Glacier. Several did not survive.

The trick to getting back safely is to set your compass from Timberline Lodge and remember the azimuth. Going up is easy, but coming down if the weather gets foggy you can't see that you are veering off into Whitewater. The tendency is to follow the slope into trouble. Even in perfect weather like we had you are drawn off course by the slope. If you follow your compass, you get back where you started from.

We were roped up going up and all had ice axes. All but two of our party used crampons. I did not possess crampons but I would never climb Hood without them after the experience. I was lucky, but nearing the top I was only a heart beat away from disaster with every step, and I knew it.

You may not know, the aerial scenes from a Jack Nicholson / Stephen King movie, The Shining, were filmed at Timberline Lodge.
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