Is There a McDonalds on Mt. Hood?
Another group of noobs got rescued off Mt. Hood recently, and we scanned the news looking for what people had to say on the subject. We follow climbing-related news not because we’re climbers per se (in fact Seattlest is really nothing of the sort), but to keep tabs on what the rest of the world thinks about “extreme” sports. And sadly we’ve found that digging up people saying stupid things on the topic of high-altitude climbing is about as easy as shooting some of Dick Cheney’s friends in the face. So we were pleased to find that a recent Seattle Times article quoted an actual Mt. Hood rescuer, who said the men had most of the right equipment, but weren’t necessarily experienced enough to use it properly. According to Steve Rollings, they did not “appreciate the strength of storms on Mt. Hood.” This is all fine and good, but then the rescuer goes on to say: uh-uh, you don’t climb in storms without…experience climbing in storms. Rollins said the men told rescuers that they had no exp
