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Mount Hood, Oregon, c. 1881 –1883. Brooklyn Museum. Timberline Lodge is a National Historic Landmark located on the southern flank of Mount Hood just below Palmer Glacier, with an elevation of about 6,000 ft (1,800 m). [10] The mountain has four ski areas: Timberline, Mount Hood Meadows, Ski Bowl, and Cooper Spur.
Aerial view of Mount Hood's rugged north side. Mount Hood climbing accidents are incidents related to mountain climbing or hiking on Oregon's Mount Hood. As of 2007, about 10,000 people attempt to climb the mountain each year. [1] As of May 2002, more than 130 people are known to have died climbing Mount Hood since records have been kept. [2]
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.
Jeffrey Kelly James (February 2, 1958 – c. December 11, 2006) was one of three experienced mountain climbers who died on Mount Hood in the U.S. state of Oregon in December 2006 in an incident that received worldwide attention. James was a native of Dallas, Texas and a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
A composite volcano or stratovolcano has a more steeply rising cone (33°-40°), [13] because of the higher viscosity of the emitted material, and eruptions are more violent and less frequent than for shield volcanoes. Examples include Vesuvius, Kilimanjaro, Mount Fuji, Mount Shasta, Mount Hood and Mount Rainier. [14]
Virginia Dale, a renowned scientist with local ties, has again returned along with her ecological research team to sites catastrophically destroyed in the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was one of the most closely studied volcanic eruptions in the arc and one of the best studied ever. It was a plinian style eruption with a VEI 5 and was the most significant to occur in the lower 48 U.S. states in recorded
Video footage of the rockslide shows the rocks tumbling down along with parts of mountain onto the road in a cloud of dust. The video was recorded by Sierra Wright, who told Storyful she made the ...