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For the 11-year period ending April 2006, [7] there was one death on Mount Hood caused by an avalanche, [8] while 445 avalanche-related deaths occurred throughout North America. [9] Compared to other western states, Oregon has relatively few avalanche fatalities (16 of the 1009 for the U.S. from 1951 to 2015 [10]). There are between 100 and 200 ...
The students were participating in Basecamp, a program run by the school following the principles of Outward Bound, and required for all tenth graders.Led by Thomas Goman, the school's chaplain, the expedition set off from Timberline Lodge, just west of the route up Mount Hood, on Monday May 12, 1986, at 2:30 a.m.
The Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center (NWAC) is a non-profit weather forecasting center located in Seattle, Washington, focusing primarily on weather conditions that can lead to avalanches in the Pacific Northwest. Its twice daily forecasts are important for recreational and professional users of mountains and other rural areas in the ...
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An avalanche warning was issued for Mt. Shasta in the southern Cascades and other parts of Siskiyou County, which are getting heavy snow that’s expected to be followed by rain.
The Mount Washington Avalanche Center described the avalanche as a "small, thin wind slab.". According to avalanche.org, a wind slab is "the release of a cohesive layer of snow (a slab) formed by ...
Erratic wind from the storm carried ash from the eruption to the south and west, lightly dusting large parts of western Washington and Oregon. Pyroclastic flows exited the northern breach and covered avalanche debris, lahars, and other pyroclastic flows deposited by the May 18 eruption. [51]
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