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Mount Hood: Adventures of the Wy'east Climbers, 1930-1942
Mount Hood: Adventures of the Wy'east Climbers, 1930-1942
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In an age before cellphones, GPS satellite tracking technology, and high-tech mountaineering gear, mountaineers still managed to perform daring rescue work on Oregon's highest peak--Mount Hood.
Members of the Wy'east Climbers helped form the Mt. Hood Ski Patrol in 1938 and were involved in the mountain's search and rescue operations throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Rescuing injured climbers in violent storms at 10,000-feet, searching for lost alpinists amid sprawling glaciers, and recovering bodies on steep, icy slopes, and from volcanic fumaroles--the Wy'easters did it all.
Members of the Wy'east Climbers also made the first ascents of Mount Hood's difficult climbing routes: Leuthold Couloir, Sandy Glacier Headwall, and Eliot Glacier Headwall. They also reopened and popularized several routes that hadn't been used in years: The Wy'east Trail, Cathedral Ridge, and the Newton-Clark Headwall Route.
To capture the historic and extremely humorous experiences of these alpinists before they were lost for good, Ric Conrad began interviewing surviving members of the exclusive climbing club. Hank Lewis, Lu Norene, Russ McJury, and Randall Kester provided insight into the region's most fascinating peak and the various outlaws who climbed alongside them. The oral history gleaned from these interviews, coupled with the author's extensive research in the archives of the Portland-based Mazamas, has yielded the most thorough picture of the Golden Age of exploration on Mount Hood.
Members of the Wy'east Climbers helped form the Mt. Hood Ski Patrol in 1938 and were involved in the mountain's search and rescue operations throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Rescuing injured climbers in violent storms at 10,000-feet, searching for lost alpinists amid sprawling glaciers, and recovering bodies on steep, icy slopes, and from volcanic fumaroles--the Wy'easters did it all.
Members of the Wy'east Climbers also made the first ascents of Mount Hood's difficult climbing routes: Leuthold Couloir, Sandy Glacier Headwall, and Eliot Glacier Headwall. They also reopened and popularized several routes that hadn't been used in years: The Wy'east Trail, Cathedral Ridge, and the Newton-Clark Headwall Route.
To capture the historic and extremely humorous experiences of these alpinists before they were lost for good, Ric Conrad began interviewing surviving members of the exclusive climbing club. Hank Lewis, Lu Norene, Russ McJury, and Randall Kester provided insight into the region's most fascinating peak and the various outlaws who climbed alongside them. The oral history gleaned from these interviews, coupled with the author's extensive research in the archives of the Portland-based Mazamas, has yielded the most thorough picture of the Golden Age of exploration on Mount Hood.
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