Climbing Mount Hood, even the south side route, is not for the novice. It requires physical fitness and skills such as navigation, avalanche safety and using crampons, an ice ax and, depending ...

Shasta, have all required climbing permits and Mt. Hood hasn’t. Now ... get more data on when people are impacting the route the most, basically helping them make better decisions about when ...

Army Ranger medic at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., receives Soldier’s Medal for saving injured hiker on mountainside in ...

On Saturday, July 6, around 7:45 a.m., a climber slipped on the Old Chute route on Mt. Hood, a very steep climbing route, high on the mountain’s south side, at around 11,200′ elevation.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Mount Hood Climbing Rangers with the U.S. Forest Service are warning mountain climbers that a seasonal crevasse has opened up near Mount Hood’s south summit.

PMR warned would-be climbers to get proper training, such as from the Mazamas, or to travel with an experienced guide before attempting to climb Mount Hood. "All routes become progressively more ...