On Saturday the Corvallis Mountain Rescue Unit joined a number of other Oregon high-angle rescue teams in a search of the north and east faces of Mt. Hood for the two climbers that went missing this past winter. Our team mustered up 7 folks, (plus an additional searcher from the local snowshoe club) to search the upper bench of the Elliot glacier. Although the setting and weather were quite beautiful, it was interesting to get up close and personal with Mt. Hood's ugly side (in late summer the usually beautiful and snowcovered northeast face shown in previous posts more resembles a sandy rockpile). I did gain some additional respect for the size and extent of the crevasses on the the Elliot, and although the efforts of 70ish folks wasn't enough to uncover further clues of the missing climbers fate I think it's safe to say that we made the best of the good conditions.
Approaching the Elliot
First peek into one of the big ones
Checking other cracks
Hi Lindsey!
Mike + Some dirty North Face Gullies
Some crag rats playing around in the upper seracs
Looking some more...
Jim finds a big one... This one was probably ~30 feet across and ~170' deep?
Jonathan having a closer look
Aaron getting nasty on a little overhang
Looking back on some of the search area
4 comments:
Great shots as usual Nate! You need to post the one of you belaying at the crevasse.
The Hoy
Now you have me doing this... jeezz
Jonathan, did you get a blog started?
Yep.
http://notimetorest.blogspot.com/
It is still in the initial stage of development.
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