Three climbers lost on Mt. Hood?

[Codger_64]

I just read the story on MSN, now I can't find it.

May 1992
http://cmru.peak.org/PhotoAlbum/oldmissions/me.htm
January 2003
http://robots.cnn.com/2003/US/West/01/12/hood.rescue/index.html
May 2006
http://pmru.org/pressroom/headlines/lostclimbers052806.html

EDIT: Found an update
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16154704/

A note that the missing climbers left at a Forest Service station said they were taking “minimal gear,” Doug Jones, a permit specialist with the Mount Hood National Forest, told The Oregonian newspaper.

 

[bulgron]

Here we go again.

In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales has quite a lot to say about Mt. Hood and over confidence. They went up that mountain in the winter time with minimal gear? I fear this will be another mountaineering story about an "easy" mountain and over confidence.

Hopefully it works out better for them than things went for James Kim.

One thing's for sure; I'm beginning to think of Oregon and one seriously scary place ....

 

[Boats]

Again, there seems to be something of a lack of respect for the local mountains, Hood being the granddaddy of them. I understand that mountianeers can be from anywhere and gain valuable experience elsewhere, but two of these guys are from Dallas, TX and one from Brooklyn, NY, and none of them has ever scaled this mountain before.

I don't profess to be a mountaineer, but I have summited Hood in the summertime. Even then, I prepared as if I would face some unpleasantness, by not wearing any cotton and taking along an expedition level tent and sleeping bag and my most insulative pad, "just in case." I also went along with someone who'd done it before since I hadn't because just about any long timer here is well aware of the most famous disaster of them all on this particular mountain.

http://www.traditionalmountaineering.org/Report_Hood_EpiscopalSchool.htm

The mountain is a killer for the ill-prepared even in May, let alone December.

 

[ras]

If they survive they can have their own episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive"

 

[morph]

they pretty much did that episode already....it was on McKinley.