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By Gary Randall For The Mountain Times Each spring, as the Mount Hood National Forest shakes off the last chill of winter, ...
A Portland man died last weekend while hiking and climbing the Cooper Spur Trail area of Mount Hood, according to the Hood River County Sheriff's Office. His body was recovered on Monday.
Mount Hood, which is located about 70 miles east of Portland, is Oregon's tallest peak at approximately 11,240 feet, according to the U.S. Forest Service. It attracts more than 10,000 climbers ...
If modern-day Portland has an origin story, it might just be the strangling of the Mount Hood Freeway, which officially died at the hands of U.S. District Judge James Burns in 1974. Burns signed a ...
“May through early July is a popular time to climb Mt. Hood, and good climbing conditions have lasted longer this year than most,” said Mark Morford of Portland Mountain Rescue ...
MOUNT HOOD, Ore. — A man was critically injured and had to be airlifted to a Portland hospital after he slipped and fell about 700 feet while climbing Mount Hood. On Saturday, around 7:45 a.m ...
The cabin served as a place to view nascent fires ... on the summit of Mount Hood in 1894. And the mountain became quite a goal for people to come from Portland. They’d take the trek up to ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Portland woman was rescued near the Mt. Hood Summit on Saturday after falling “several hundred feet”, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., a 36-year-old woman from Portland was coming down the popular south side route on Mt. Hood when she slipped, fell several hundred feet, and sustained injuries.