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I appreciate the advice. I don't have a ton of background to know if the current weather makes for bad conditions. I was just thinking all of that because I saw the freeze level would be above 12000' the next couple days and thought that meant things would be increasingly unstable until temperatures dropped.

So I need this groups advice for next weekend. I am flying in from Texas to hopefully hike Mt.Hood via the south side Friday night/Saturday morning. Ive been following all the discussions on here as well looking at the weather. It looks like by the mid part of next week it is supposed to get colder in the mountains, ironically reaching its coldest the night I want to climb. Not having a ton of experience predicting avalanche danger, will a day or two of colder temperatures stabilize the mountain enough from the current warm weather to make it somewhat climbable. I know this all ties into what risk level the group I am in is willing to take, but it will suck if I paid all this money to fly to Oregon to not climb the mountain at all. I just don't know how many days of refreezing on average it takes to make the mountain not so dangerous. Thanks

Hi everyone, I need to buy a good hard shell jacket for an upcoming climb, and need some advice. Having never owned one before, should the hard shell jacket fit tight or should it be a little looser? I am in between a L and XL and I don't want to shoot myself in the foot with the wrong size. Thanks,