brettbrown
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Does anyone have any details on what happened to the three climbers on Mt. Hood? I know they found one body. From what I was able to find, they were supposed to be experienced climbers. The were making a one day summit push from the West side. Reports said that they didn't even have one shovel between them. That seems odd to me being the time of year. I don't know much about Hood but it seems to get noticed what tragedy strikes.
I also read that in 1986 9 people died when they built a snow cave. Anyone knoe what happened there?
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lonegreeneagle
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Hello all,
All to often people with some experience get carelessand bigger than themselves. EGO kills more of us then anything. With snowcaves, if you close yourself in and don't allow ventilation then you breath yourself to death or die of hypothermia. You know wet floor,ceiling and clothes lose body heat quickly and succomb!
I haven't heard about the recent climbers, except that the first one found died of hypothermia.
I am very well trained in many areas of outdoor activities from 10 years in the Army. My first bit of training was humility! Mountains, oceans and Mother Earth are powerful forces beyond our HUMAN capabilities! I always travel, over prepared and leave trip plans with family and or park officials. I travel now a days with a SPOT, I paid for the unlimited tracking and the extra S&R Insurance. $100,000.00 goes along way towards S&R teams, helicopters, medical expenses.
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marks
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The two people still on hood are in a critical situation which I'm sure they didn't intend to get into. Lets just keep our thoughts focused on their survival and not on what they should have done for now.
Keep in mind their families may be reading this and they deserve respect. If they are still with us: fight hard, dream big and never give up.
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Ruze23
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For a non-news source about Mt. Hood and the climbers, check out MtHoodClimbers.blogspot
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brettbrown
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I wasn't looking to say what the climbers should or should not have done. I was questioning the validity of the news source. I read about it on CNN.com. They are now always accurate.
My heart goes out to the families of the climbers. Hopefully they will have good news soon.
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marks
| Posted: December 16th, 2009 Edited: December 16th, 2009 | Quote, Reply |
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brettbrown said:
I wasn't looking to say what the climbers should or should not have done. I was questioning the validity of the news source. I read about it on CNN.com. They are now always accurate.
My heart goes out to the families of the climbers. Hopefully they will have good news soon.
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NP just after the SPOT messengers got brought up, I didn't want this to turn into a "what they shoulda, coulda" done fest especially when their fate isn't determined. Neither of you guys said anything inappropriate but I didn't want someone else to hijack the thread into yet another, all so popular, SPOT mes. dicsussion.
It sounds like these guys were pretty experienced so lets hope.
Thanks for all your contribution guys and nothing personal meant,
Mark
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brettbrown
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I realized before I made the post that this was a sensitive subject. Let's face it, these climbers could have been anyone of us. Anyone who posts here is not the type to sit home on the weekend and watch football. We are all looking for more excitement out of life.
With my pending trip to climb the Nisqually Icecliff this winter on Rainier, my wife received several phone calls when the news hit the media. I guess people thought the news would change my plans or something. (Like that would happen).
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dogonfr
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marks said:
Keep in mind their families may be reading this and they deserve respect. If they are still with us: fight hard, dream big and never give up. |
Wow very nice. Our prayers are out to all.
As brettbrown pointed out we do extreme sports knowing that their is a risk and our spouses that dont join us understand and know this also. Any one of us can have our name called at any time leaving friends and family, we lost a son here in our home to a viral infection at the young age of 20. Marks words are awesome thats what we do this for. God bless our spouses.
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