[TR] Mt Hood - South Side/Hogsback 3/18/2010

[NEKiwi]

Trip: Mt Hood - South Side/Hogsback

 

Date: 3/18/2010

 

Trip Report:

A mate and I (both from out of town) headed up the south side from Timberline last Thursday.

 

Left from the (frozen over) Timberline parking lot at 2am, followed the bootpack, the lifts, the compass, and finally our noses till we could see the hogsback outlined by a faint glow of the sun sometime around 6. Can't say much about this portion of the day, was a touch on the tired side and couldn't see much apart from the stars.

 

Saw the outline of a lone climber making his way up the Hogsback as we got up there. Very nice of him to break the traverse across to the Old Chute for us - thanks again if you read this. We made the summit at about 8am.

 

Snowpack was pretty solid. Had a few small pieces of ice from our friend a hundred yards ahead as we went up the old chute, but nothing major. Spent a good half hour on the summit, was surprisingly calm. Headed back down the same way (old chute, hogsback).

 

Without a doubt an amazing day. Counted a total of 10 people heading up to the summit via Hogsback, plus a bunch of mountain rescue folks out for training (thanks for the effort, we all really appreciate it). All in all the day couldn't have been better for our first time on Hood.

 

Our lone friend heading up the Hogsback

 

Summit

 

From the old chute on the descent

 

Looking down the Hogsback at the rescue dudes

 

Cheers y'all

 

HT

 

Gear Notes:

Ice axe

Crampons

no rope

Edited March 23, 2010 by NEKiwi

[Water]

love the photography, specially the one of your shadows up top.

congrats on a first climb. Now the details bout where the hogsback is and the old chute and all that jazz are old hat

[GoCougs]

That was us you saw. A group of us went up on Monday and a second group went up on Thursday. I went up Monday. Beautiful day. Glad to hear you made it up