[TR] Mt Hood- Hogsback 4/19/2005

[manky]

Climb: Mt Hood-Hogsback

 

Date of Climb: 4/19/2005

 

Trip Report:

Dead calm at midnight in the parking lot. 3AM with good moonlight showing huge growing plume on top an 20mph with gusts to 40 or higher below Illumination Rock. After the grunt up to the fun stuff there was nothing but white outs and huge gusts up to the Big White Pig. Thought better of the lack of visibility and raging wind and bailed out around 9 AM. Saw a hard man or two going up above the dead lift and one snowboarder going up slugging it out in the wind with his board strapped to his back. In the parking lot a skier said from the lift he saw a signal mirror flashing several times and reported to the info desk across from the rental. Hope whoever that was got down okay.

 

Good windpacked neve about 70 percent of the climb. Didn't need crampons until making the right turn towards the Pig.

 

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Gear Notes:

Axe, poons, duck tape, anamometer would have been nice.

[sweatinoutliquor]

On the way down there wer

 

On the way down there wer what?? Don't leave me hanging like this! I am already on edge enough for a thursday morning in the office! Is this your last transmission and whatever you saw prevented you from writing!? How about, "on the way down there wer hordes of snaffles converging on your position, and you weren't sure how you could hold them off..."