Joe_Poulton

I'm just wanting to conduct a little research. On my recent trip from Timberline around the Eastside of Mount Hood and up the Cooper Spur. I experienced a painful reaction to the sulfur venting in the crater area on the Southside while descending. When I got home I tried to eat and drink water immediately...well I couldn't. Instantly, I felt like I couldn't down anything including air. I tried to drink more water, then my airway felt like it was burning away. So, I decided that I might just be super dehydrated and in an attempt to hydrate in a less obtrusive way I hopped in a Hot shower and took in all the steam I could...that fixed it momentarily, but I was able to drink more water and then eat in a few more hours. Then, today in my EMT-B course we lectured about poisons and toxins of the various sorts. I got thinking, descending through the South crater I was getting tired more rapidly then normal...less oxygen because it got displaced by the Sulfur Dioxide I was breathing. Then I did some research into the effects of inhalation. It can cause pulmonary edema over an extended exposure period. It reacts with water to cause sulfuric acid, um my throat burned after adding water... Before you take the time to read the rest of this post. I want to know if anyone else has experienced any similar reactions? FACTS I have found "Colorless nonflammable poison gas with highly irritating pungent odor. Irritating and corrosive to exposed tissues. Inhalation of vapors may cause dangerous retention of body fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema) and chemical pneumonitis. Corrosive and irritating to the upper and lower respiratory tract and all mucosal tissue. Initial symptoms of exposure include nose and throat irritation, becoming steadily worse, suffocating and painful. The irritation extends to the chest causing a cough reflex which may be violent and painful and may include the discharge of blood or vomiting with eventual collapse. Other symptoms include headache, general discomfort and anxiety. Chemical pneumonitis and pulmonary edema may result from exposure to the lower respiratory tract and deep lung. MEDICAL CONDITIONS AGGRAVATED BY EXPOSURE: May aggravate pre-existing eye, skin, and respiratory disorders. Smokers and persons with pre-existing respiratory, nasal, and cardiovascular disease may be more susceptible to effects of sulfur dioxide exposure. INHALATION: The irritant action of sulfur dioxide is believed to be caused by the formation of sulfurous acid when the gas dissolves. Bronchoconstriction caused by sulfur dioxide is concentration related. Fifteen humans which inhaled 1, 5, or 25 ppm sulfur dioxide for 6 hours (nose-breathing) exhibited reduced forced expiratory volume and forced expiratory flow at all concentrations. Significant reduction in nasal mucous flow rate was seen following exposure to 5 and 25 ppm." These were excerpted from BOC Gases MSDS found here in PDF. Thank you for reading all that. I hoping to turn some info from this into my EMS paper for my EMT-B course at NWRTC.

Revelstoke has some awesome ice that few know about or bother to find. Like said previously, cheaper.

That spot should be a historical BMX spot... It was there when I was growing up 20 years ago...

Did, not anymore...got my cards, and phone stolen out of my shoe...there goes trusting bastards of the inner city. Don't let your stuff get out of sight. Even your car.

I don't think he has built up his gallery and figured how it works yet. Lee, you have to upload to the gallery so when you push the photo button while building the post the gallery shows up and you click the photos you want to add to the given location in the post.

"New Trip Report" button in Route Report section for given section.

That's amazing...

Good job Marc...so, I'm getting stronger myself...I can now climb a solid 5.9 with a pack on my back...and not tweak my shoulder...

Um....that's why I got the Marker Dukes...I'll never break those unless I take a knee fall in tour mode. Awesome Photos! You should Plywerk some of those.

Shot during my recent trip.

You can thank Mr. Tom Hanlon for the pics...he had a nice compact Canon G11 at the ready on his hip....while I had a Canon 40D stuffed into my pack...I need to devise get a better carry system...

We dropped into the White River about level with the base of the Steel Cliffs and contoured around and out onto the Wy'East Face maintaining roughly 9200 - 9500 in elevation. We did descend a bit approaching the Black Spider area but not much. All the crevasses were covered except for the main Berg on the Newton Clark.

About 3 hours and the snowpack was solid until just before the Black Spider Cirque then it got soft. A bit shorter then the Tilly Jane TH. And after you get up top your car is nicely parked on the Southside.

Trip: Mount Hood - Cooper Spur Date: 3/19/2010 Trip Report: Tom and I thought about checking out the Black Spider area so we planned a jaunt from Timberline Lodge around the east side to have a look. We made our bivy hotel with the best window view anyone could get. We planned to wake up at 0300 on the 19th and get moving by 0400. However, we didn't get moving until 0430 because room service was a little slow making the hot chocolate. Approaching the black spider Thinking about doing something here but deciding it was too warm. Climbing the Cooper Spur instead and wallowing in the sugar. We descended the south side back to our stash and I had one hell of a fast ski descent down from the top of the palmer. Some skiers at the Hogsback hooked me up with some extra water...if you read this thank you. All in all it was a great trip except for the sugar wallow.

Awesome!

Tom and I had no one on the summit...though we took a lot longer to get there...TR coming soon. We started at Timberline and wrapped around the East to the Black Spider but the ice line we were after was wind loaded and so we contoured around and up the Cooper Spur. Summit at 1209.

Awesome photo!

Now it says, "Did snowmobilers cause deadly avalanche"

Everyone was out on March 6 it seems! http://www.examiner.com/x-18581-Portland-Mountaineering-Examiner~y2010m3d12-North-cascades-activity Awesome day!

huh...more parking...a lift to the top of Silver King....a proposed Silver Basin Express...a lot stuff might be changing up there...an East Peak lift...

I think the "unclimbed" would be a good warm up for the Arachnophobia Direct....when are the Canadians coming? Tell them to wait 2 weeks.

Lay on a sled and have your buddy pull you.

I see a variation on Arachnophobia.

Great climbing...got to get on it! Anyone up for a first ascent of another line over there? Congrat Wayne!