Climbing in Oregon

So a group of us headed down to climb South Sister, in central Oregon, this weekend. We planned to set up basecamp on Friday night, alpine start early Saturday, summit Saturday before midday and return to basecamp Saturday night, before driving home Sunday. We also hoped to get some rock climbing in at Smith Rock on the way home on Sunday. The mountains were so clouded in as we drove down Friday that I suggested we just climb at Smith Rock all weekend. Either folks agreed with me or I just whined enough that they gave in, and we headed to Smith Rock for a great weekend of climbing. (Turned out that Saturday would have been a stellar day to summit South Sister, we could see it from Smith that morning. But the clouds rolled in quickly in the afternoon, and that probably would have been pretty miserable.)

Photos are on my Flickr site.

Attempt on Mt Hood

So a couple of us went to climb Mt Hood this weekend. Turned out the weather was actually too good. Things didn't freeze solid the night before and so rock fall and ice fall blocked the summit. Not that I noticed. I was rocked with a migraine late that night and so didn't even try.

At least one climber that attempted the summit this weekend was seriously injured and had to be helevac'd out.

A few photos on my Flickr account: