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#616291 - 12/10/06 10:39 PM
Re: 3 Lost on Mount Hood
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Couloir
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Registered: 10/22/04
Posts: 1539
Loc: Portland
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Hang in there fellas, the best of the best are headed your way. 
KATU News
Barker?
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#616294 - 12/10/06 11:02 PM
Re: 3 Lost on Mount Hood
[Re: Couloir]
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barkernews
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Registered: 03/30/04
Posts: 246
Loc: People's Republic of No-Po
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I'm en route.
Spent today patrolling at Meadows. Got knocked over by a 70+ MPH gust at the top of Cascade. The WX is Ghetto.
Poor guys.
More later...
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#616309 - 12/11/06 07:07 AM
Re: 3 Lost on Mount Hood
[Re: cluck]
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John Frieh
spray'prentice
Registered: 11/08/03
Posts: 4602
Loc: PDX
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#616344 - 12/11/06 09:19 AM
Re: 3 Lost on Mount Hood
[Re: Winter]
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barkernews
enthusiast
Registered: 03/30/04
Posts: 246
Loc: People's Republic of No-Po
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Hey ya'll.
Apparently the climbers are fairly experienced. Sounds like they've got experience on Rainier, Denali and the Andes. That's the good news.
The bad news is they left Friday from Tilly Jane and planned to finish Saturday at T-Line. Of course, if they're that experienced perhaps they're used to digging in for a couple of nights. Sounds like they had bivy sacks, too!
I'm told they left a note at the Parkdale ranger station detailing their route and experience. Sounds like they were going climbers right on the Elliot... not the Cooper Spur route.
Best of luck to everyone...
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#616353 - 12/11/06 09:42 AM
Re: 3 Lost on Mount Hood
[Re: billcoe]
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Winter
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 11/13/00
Posts: 2140
Loc: freshiez!
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Sometime early Thursday morning, the men, who have not been identified by authorities, slipped a handwritten note in the mail slot of the office for the Hood River National Forest, said Doug Jones, permit specialist with the Mount Hood National Forest.
“We don’t see these very often,” Jones said.
All entry points into the wilderness have self-issue permit boxes where climbers and hikers are supposed to leave their permits to enter the forest, “but they are not really kept up during the winter,” Jones said.
He said there is no climbing register where the men started their climb. He said there is a permit box, but since they are not from the area it is likely they did not spot it, Jones said. The climbers instead jotted a note and left it at the forest office on Oregon 35, south of Hood River.
He said in the brief note they said they planned to take the route through the coulirs, or canyons, on the north face, “which tells me that they are probably going up to the right side of Elliot Glacier,” Jones said. “The Cooper Spur route goes left. There are no coulirs up there.”
Uggghh.
Edited by Winter (12/11/06 09:44 AM)
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#616372 - 12/11/06 10:10 AM
Re: 3 Lost on Mount Hood
[Re: Winter]
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billcoe
Couchmaster
sprayer
Registered: 10/02/02
Posts: 5502
Loc: pdx
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He said in the brief note they said they planned to take the route through the coulirs, or canyons, on the north face, “which tells me that they are probably going up to the right side of Elliot Glacier,” Jones said. “The Cooper Spur route goes left. There are no coulirs up there.”
Uggghh.
Hmmmm - more likely be one of the 2 North Face couloir routes up on the left of the NF, to the right of the Cooper Spur route. That would also minimise the slog in in deep snow, shorten a long winter hike a bit, and minimize the potential of ripping through a crevase on the Elliot or Coe Glacier as you crossed since many of the openings are most likly somewhat likely covered by snow now. Given the amount of snow lately, wonder if looking at the base of those routes - checking for obvious avalance debris - for the 2 guys who left the snowcave is the highest likelyhood of finding them.
Did cell phone caller have an altimeter reading? It would be a lot easier to get to him if he's in one of the gullys than trying to drop down the Elliot which probably has a bit of a nasty overhanging cornice on it right now given how the weathers been I'd bet.
He might be in luck if he's only a pitch or 2 from the top.
Image of the NF avalance gully by crackman in better conditions 2004 (TimmyH). Coinkadentally, Tim was trolling for a partner to head up on the 7th to do about any route on Hood, Tim check in yet?
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#616386 - 12/11/06 10:23 AM
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