Mt. Hood West Ridge

2006 climbing mthood mountaineering

Saturday morning my friends Keevin, Frank and I went up Mt. Hood from Timberline Lodge. We left around 2 am and hit the base of the Hog’s Back around 5:30. We decided to skip the Hog’s Back and traverse over to the West Ridge.

I was a little freaked cos I hadn’t done anything like that, but once we started it was totally bomber. We did a running belay with snow pickets every rope length.

It was totally bad ass and here are some pictures.

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