[Man50D]

If you educate yourself about Mt. Hood, and climbing it, you will learn that when the snow melts, or is melting is the most dangerous time. There are rock slides, and showers of ice pellets and rocks. I am not a climber, but have been reading about it. The snow bridges over the crevices also melt.....

I do know Mt. Hood is dangerous enough at this time of year so that three supposed experienced mountain climbers have been lost for more than a week in weather blizzard conditions at times with winds, in some cases, exceeding 90+ mph and consequently risk the lives of many people to save them. The climbers are the one's in need of an education and unfortunately they are getting one.

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "The climbers are the one's in need of an education and unfortunately they are getting one."

I seriously doubt that they are in need of an education that is coming from some posters on Free Republic.

In Oregon, we expect those things to happen. We know they are and there are going to be deaths. There always is. People still go up there, some less trained, some more. It's the way it goes on Mt. Hood and in Oregon.

People are not going to get "wrung out" over well trained climbers. They might get wrung out a bit over some school kids going up there and not having good enough equipment, guides and training -- but not over experienced climbers.

You need to live next to Mt. Hood and know people who have gone up there multiple times and been there when people have died and even when school kids have died. Then you would get a perspective on the mountain.

Regards,
Star Traveler