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http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ We left around midnight and it was a perfect night for climbing. \u00a0It was nicely in the mid-20’s (which kept the snow frozen for easier travel) and only 5-10mph winds. \u00a0We were about halfway to the crater rim from Palmer as sunlight starting coming out around 4am.\u00a0 We hit the crater rim around 6am as I recall. \u00a0Fantastic views and we got really lucky with the cloud cover. \u00a0There was a lot of low-lying clouds around Timberline lodge level, but also a layer of really high clouds which kept the sun off the top of the mountain.\u00a0 Keeping the sun off the top of the mountain is important later to prevent ice and snow from melting and falling from above.\u00a0 But we\u00a0 had a wonderful window between the two layers and enjoyed it.\u00a0 We did the Old Chute route, and there were easily 50 other people doing climbs as well. \u00a0One or two groups did the Pearly Gates, but it was pretty icy and a good number of people switched over to the Old Chute for the way down. \u00a0The snow was nicely consolidated all the way up.<\/p>\n I did find out more about the slide that happened on Wednesday<\/a>. \u00a0I took a picture while I was up there since it was the very route we had to take(!), and we think this is where it happened: Most of the folks we ran into up there were really well prepared and safe. \u00a0As for poor form awards of the day, we ran into a ski patrol guy on the way down that said a lady had broken her ankle on the way down because she was glissading with her crampons on (a classic, big no-no). \u00a0Another guy had done the chute in the simple metal band crampons tied around his hiking shoes (not boots) and a hoodie (no coat, no pack\/extra gear\/etc). \u00a0He got stuck up at the top until someone who had found an extra ice ax (the one that the guy in the slide lost??) lent him it to go down with.<\/p>\n Oh, and a dog made the summit too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Had a GREAT time climbing Mt Hood on Saturday, Jun 11th.\u00a0 Here is a flickr stream of photos: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/18696433@N02\/sets\/72157626828673343\/ We left around midnight and it was a perfect night for climbing. \u00a0It was nicely in the mid-20’s (which kept the snow frozen for easier travel) and only 5-10mph winds. \u00a0We were about halfway to the crater rim from Palmer as sunlight starting coming out around 4am.\u00a0 We hit the crater rim around 6am as I recall. \u00a0Fantastic views and…<\/p>\n
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\nThe time of the slide was supposedly around 7am – which surprised us at hearing it had being so early.\u00a0 Usually these sorts of slides happen after the sun has been shining for a few hours (noon\/afternoon).\u00a0 It was apparently a bunch of ice that fell off the wall and then slid down. \u00a0The lady who got hit did end up falling a couple hundred feet, sustained ‘a couple fractures’, and went to the hospital but was expect to make a full recovery. \u00a0It was small\/mid-sized slide by the look of it and you could see where it had left big chunks laying around as we climbed up.\u00a0 We’d had below freezing temps all night so there was nothing coming down; but the sun was shining directly on the wall section right where it had broken loose by the time we arrived. \u00a0Being new to Hood and climbing, I was a (understandably) worried but we got up and down as quickly as we could.\u00a0 Since we got up there a little later than we wanted, we didn’t run across the summit ridge to get to the true summit.\u00a0 The sun had been hitting the chute walls for well over an hour by the time we got up there, so we played it safe.\u00a0 We got to summit ridge, took a good look around to enjoy the view,\u00a0 and then came down again to be safe.<\/p>\n