While you're waiting
If you're stuck in a whiteout near the top of Mount Hood, and the rescuers are trying to get to you, hunker down and post some stuff to Facebook.
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Comments (8)
And then the battery dies. What is next to die?
Posted by Harry | November 29, 2012 6:20 AM
I guess he was found .....safe. Now that is a good FB status update.
Posted by Harry | November 29, 2012 6:39 AM
I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt that he was moderately equipped for the trip. He may be taking advantage of tech to kill time until conditions improve, but at least he's not like the idiots in the Nineties who'd climb Hood in tennis shoes, figure that bringing food and warm clothing was for wimps, and then whip out their cell phones and call for rescue as soon as conditions got bad.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | November 29, 2012 8:04 AM
If you wanted to inform your friends and family that you were stuck in a snowcave on Mt Hood, posting it on Facebook is probably more efficient than making a bunch of calls in terms of battery usage.
Posted by Tony | November 29, 2012 8:39 AM
I hope he is sent a bill for the rescue.
I do not have any sympathy for folks who go out hiking on a mountain and then need a rescue. They chose to go out there...they need to be prepared to get out, or at a minimum be prepared to pay the actual costs of sending helicopters out there.
Posted by Erik H. | November 29, 2012 8:53 AM
His preparedness seems a bit much. Has Leno booked him yet?
Posted by Abe | November 29, 2012 10:27 AM
Don't we bill people for ambulance rides? That's right, we do, and people die because they hesitate to call.
Posted by JO | November 29, 2012 1:14 PM
He ascended at a very slow rate - 12.5 hours from Timberline to summit, or about 400 feet/hour. There's a red flag right there about his level of preparedness not being adequate. With winter climbs, you get a weather window, you move fast, and then you get out of there before some other system moves in and everything changes.
Posted by John Rettig | November 29, 2012 9:41 PM