Pack loaded and ready to go
(I got the retro award for having the REI Tourstar backpack Circa 1995)
Complete with water, food, emergency supplies, clothes, rocks, couple of bricks and a small child.
This is the second time I've climbed Hood with this pack... first time was 11 yrs ago when I was a strapping young lass doing forest service work. The pack seemed much lighter back then.
Cheese please!
And behind me we have Mt Jefferson....
Due WestA fantastic view of Mt Hood's shadow being cast to the west as the sun is rising in the east.
...Scotty, Beam me up...
my legs are tired
Heading up the Hog's back ... this time, both sulfur pits are exposed on each side... stinky stinky... and NO that was not me!
The first time I climbed Hood, the group headed up the Hog's Back and then cut to west, over the Bergshrund, and then up through the "Pearly Gates". On this climb we cut to the East because there was supposedly less ice that we'd have to go through.
Glacading on the heiny... oh so much fun!!!
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