Did you see this footage of the skier BASE jumping 7200 feet off Mount Hood?
Checkit.
Daredevil on Skis
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Showing posts with label Mount Hood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mount Hood. Show all posts
Monday, March 03, 2008
BASE jumper skier on Mount Hood
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Mount Hood climbers safe
You may have heard/read earlier that two climbers were missing on Mount Hood (11,239 feet), although they had talked to rescuers via a cell phone.
They're down and safe now, after spending a night in a snow cave.
Justin Votos, 27, and Matthew Pitts, 28, said they'd summited twice before, and thought they had a good climbing window but got caught in whiteout conditions at about 10,000 feet.
They started hiking down toward Timberline Lodge, but missed it and said they built the cave at about 5,000 feet.
Walking down today they found a geocache with GPS gear that allowed them to report their location to rescuers via cell phone. They were near Enid Lake and less than a mile from U.S. 26.
Great news for those two, and a reminder to the rest of us to be prepared for the worst.
They're down and safe now, after spending a night in a snow cave.
Justin Votos, 27, and Matthew Pitts, 28, said they'd summited twice before, and thought they had a good climbing window but got caught in whiteout conditions at about 10,000 feet.
They started hiking down toward Timberline Lodge, but missed it and said they built the cave at about 5,000 feet.
Walking down today they found a geocache with GPS gear that allowed them to report their location to rescuers via cell phone. They were near Enid Lake and less than a mile from U.S. 26.
Great news for those two, and a reminder to the rest of us to be prepared for the worst.
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