Mt Hood Lookout

[cj001f]

Here's a picture I found of the old lookout on Mt. Hood.

Anyone know why I can't import a bitmap?

[Ursa_Eagle]

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Edited September 26, 2003 by Ursa_Eagle

[b-rock]

I've heard that there's all kinds of old crap on Cooper left over from a failed attempt at some sort of cable lift to the summit. Didn't know there used to be a tower, pretty cool.

[rbw1966]

When a buddy of mine and I did Cooper in November of a low-snow year we saw some of those aforementioned cables. I have an old, out of print history of Mt. Hood at home and will try to remember to research what it has to say about that.

 

Very cool picture Carl. I wonder if anyone has a shot of that from a further panorama.

[cj001f]

Rob-

Is that Mount Hood: A Complete History by Graeur?

 

The picture I got from http://www.pdxhistory.com it's got a number of cool old pictures & postcards of Cloudcap inn & hood.

 

[iain]

The cables on Cooper Spur go back to when Cloud Cap was the "Timberline" of the mountain. Cooper Spur was the standard route up the mountain, and ropes were hauled up there and fixed for groups to climb up. Since the ropes were so heavy, group sizes had to be pretty large. Classic photos of women in huge dresses going up Cooper Spur are out there.

 

The materials on the summit are what's left of the lookout. The sign on the lookout is down in the Cloud Cap Inn, along with a bit of the rope that was up on the mountain. I'm not sure how the steel cables come into play.

 

There is also the old engine sitting down by crater rock, a step back in time. A fun way to go up to it is via the ice gulley bisecting crater rock.

[cj001f]

iain said:There is also the old engine sitting down by crater rock, a step back in time. A fun way to go up to it is via the ice gulley bisecting crater rock.

Do you know why they dragged it up?

[rbw1966]

cj001f said:

Rob-

Is that Mount Hood: A Complete History by Graeur?

 

The picture I got from http://www.pdxhistory.com it's got a number of cool old pictures & postcards of Cloudcap inn & hood.

 

I dont remember

[iain]

I think it was used to help get the timbers up to the lookout, but some mining might have been going on too, I don't remember. I'll have to ask the old-timers.

 

[ivan]

my favorite is the huge coil of hemp rope on the cooper spur...must be 100 yards long and 2 inches in diameter...several fools appear to have slung it's rotting coils and rapped off it

[iain]

here's another shot from the Mazamas, ~1917

[iain]

that's exactly the question being asked about the old engine over on crater rock. I say leave it be. Along with all that helicopter prop in the upper fumarole

[Jake]

What happened to the lookout anyway?

[iain]

I came across this cool picture of when Silcox was the upper lift terminal for the Magic Mile too. I like hanging around Timberline looking at where things used to be. Be careful doing avalanche beacon practice around the Salmon River canyon area, there's a bunch of buried metal and cables from the lifts.

[iain]

The lookup collapsed in the 40's from the extreme weather and just becoming run-down in general. I can only imagine the conditions it faced. The signs off the thing look like they've been sandblasted.

[cj001f]

Jake said:

What happened to the lookout anyway?

According to the history weather & vandalism took it out in '44.

 

I thought the "tram" to Timberline was cool

 

[ChrisT]

how cute!

[iain]

if you look at the south side aerial photo in the climber's register, you can see the strip of snow from govy up to the lodge where that thing was traveling.

[iain]

only it wouldn't be running half the time and there'd be lines all the way to Parkdale.

[Alpinfox]

 

Any of your Oregonites been up Black Butte recently? The older fire lookout tower fell down in a big storm the winter before last. Quite a mess up there.