From: jrw@aracnet.com   
      
   On 15 Dec 2006 08:35:53 -0800, "Larry Caldwell"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Lobby Dosser wrote:   
   >   
   >> These three are supposedly 'experienced' climbers. Took practically nothing   
   >> with them for a fast dash to the summit and back and apparently didn't even   
   >> bother to check the weather forecast.   
   >   
   >It was the weather report that got them.  Mt. Hood is a walk-up, in   
   >good weather.  The climbers were all foreigners, two from Texas and one   
   >from New York, who obviously didn't realize what the weather was like   
   >in December above 10,000 feet.  If they had scheduled their hike for   
   >the February climate break, they would have been fine.   
   >   
   >This has been a pretty stormy autumn.  I don't think we have had a real   
   >break in the weather since the first of November; just a few days here   
   >and there.   
      
   That's true.  I've had some interesting morning commutes between   
   driving rain and darkness.   
      
   jrw   
      
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