[TR] Mt. Hood- Reid HW 4/23/2006

[flatnose]

Climb: Mt. Hood-Reid HW

 

Date of Climb: 4/23/2006

 

Trip Report:

Climbed Reid HW sunday morning. Absolute wallow getting up to the bergschrund but very nice kickstepping w/ occasional neve higher up. F#$*ing windy!! Took a couple of tennis balls off the thighs but mostly golf/pingpong ball size chunks coming down continuously in the first and second gullies. Should be great if the weather holds for another week or two.

 

Gear Notes:

axe, 2nd tool, poons, HELMET, Choc. covered espresso beans

[Chad_A]

Very cool, man, glad you got out. Fun route, eh?

 

Good job!

[sweatinoutliquor]

Conditions better this year or last? We were sitting in the parking lot (planning on reid also) and whimped out cause of the wind, but it would have been funny to run into you up there again! Guess your more hardcore than us! Ended up going to smith instead, which worked out okay, but wasn't what we really hoped to accomplish with this "nice" weather.

[neswstar]

I understnad there is more than one shute up the Reid - which shute did you guys take? - and on the Sandy HW - was there as much debris coming at you?

[flatnose]

I took the standard route up thru the first, traverse left over snow rib, and thru another chute. You can also head straight up the first gully to top out on w. crater rim which I've done before too. The Sandy was great; no debris whatsoever unlike a couple of years ago when some pretty scary sized chunks were flying through the hourglass. That was in mid june though.