Mount Hood Summit Climb in Winter | Up through the Pearly Gates and down Old Chute
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Follow three mountaineers summit Oregon's highest peak! We climbed Mount Hood via the South Side Route in one day in mid-February 2022. Although it was a beautiful day with blue skies, watch us get through challenging conditions of windblown snow and ice.
We used splitboards and started our ascent at 2:40am from the Timberline Lodge Parking lot to the Mount Hood summit. With barely anyone on the mountain, we had time to take in the beauty of Devils Kitchen, Hogsback, Pearly Gates, and Old Cute. The Pearly Gates were very icy when we did our ascent Old Chute was a wall of ice as well. We were able to snowboard down from Devils Kitchen near Crater Rock, but the descent was very hard on our legs going over all the windblown snow and ice. The challenges and successful summit made for a memorable day.
Contents of video:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Ascent
3:58 Devils Kitchen
4:20 Hogsback
4:56 Pearly Gates
5:54 Summit
6:57 Old Chute
8:34 Snowboard from Devils Kitchen
9:33 Summary
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Hiking in winter conditions is no joke. The winter scenery has its raw charm. Cold, but beautiful. Sunset shoots and light is amazing too. All respect you did this hike Evan! You're a hero! Stay safe!
You're right. Winter does present more challenges, but it does have beautiful scenery and there are a lot less people on the mountain. Glad you enjoyed the video!
This is AMAZING, Evan! Thank you for sharing your epic hike / climb with us! So beautiful!
Glad you enjoyed it! It was a pretty epic hike. It was fun to climb without any large crowds and push ourselves a bit on the icy sections of the mountain.
Great video! We attempted to summit yesterday and the weather stopped us at hogs back. Hope to give it another try later this month or in June.
Too bad the weather wasn't good enough to summit. Good luck on your next attempt!
What’s up Spokane Mountaineer! Great climb! Thanks for sharing! 🎉
Hey, thanks for watching! Appreciate it!
Wow can't even tell you how much I wish I could do something like that. That was amazing.
Thank you!
Great vid. This is on my todo list.
It's like, 'just been to the summit.' Great adventure Evan - I really enjoyed the Pearly gates. It looks bigger than what it is from a distance. What an ice world. Awesome. Great sunset - you couldn't have asked for more - well a little less wind maybe. With good company a top rate day. All the best. Mark
wow epic!! looks dangerous! you guys are well prepared. thanks for sharing your amazing adventure!!
Yes, there were some sketchy parts of the climb going up the Pearly Gates and down Old Chute. We were well equipped and everyone summitted/descended safely.
Hello Within Hiking Distance! Thank you for showing me a nice video! I really enjoyed it! It's a very interesting video! Thank you for sharing! Have a nice day!
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
WOW!!! That was awesome Evan. Thanks for sharing this with us. 🤠
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video your right that sunrise was amazing 👍
Glad you enjoyed it. I love seeing the shadow of the mountain in the morning. It's a pretty awesome sight.
This is pretty lovely ! big thumbs up
Thanks! The scenery going up the mountain was breathtaking. Glad we had good weather for our trip.
Very windy but so beautiful up there. You are so brave and adventurous but all worth it all that gorgeous peak view. Breathtaking experience. Thumbs up! 32
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow really enjoyed your video, thanks for sharing it with us. Just found your channel a few minutes ago and I’m really enjoying it! Full support to your channel can’t wait to see more!
Thanks for watching! More climbs to come in the next few months.
Wow, that's probably like the scariest climb I've ever seen you do, Evan! Very sketchy in certain parts, but you guys knew what you were doing. It was extremely beautiful scenery the whole way, though, and the day was really clear. That was a really fun way to get back down the mountain! Thanks for sharing your mountain climbing adventure with all of us.
Thanks Eric! Glad you liked it. I think the key word was "intense" as we did that climb. There were some sketchy parts up and descending because of the ice and windblown snow. It was a real challenge, but a memorable one.
Re-watching and re-living that awesome day! So glad you captured it and made this video! Hopefully more adventures to come this spring!
Hey Triston! Great to hear from you. I have a splitboard of my own now, so looking forward to getting out there soon. Keep me posted next time you're in the area.
Wow, that's a awesome climb. Congrats 👏 😀
Thank you very much, James! It was hard but it was worth it.
We are still waiting for our first snow of the winter here but looks like you have had more than your fair share over there. Nice early start and brilliant to see the sun rising but man that wind sounded rough. Awesome climb and even better scenery but man, what a great way to get down! Cheers Alan
Plenty of snow up on the mountain, but it was pretty windblown and icy when we did the climb. Snowboarding was definitely a lot faster than walking down the mountain.
Absolutely gorgeous video brother! You're a STUD! (also stark raving mad....but a definite stud 🤣🤣) Awesome you've found something you enjoy so much..it would almost be worth it just for that view!! 🤙🤙
Thanks! That was a challenging climb, but definitely worth the view. I hope to climb a few more mountains in the upcoming months.
Great video!!!🥰🥰
Thank you!
4:24 love that sound
Thanks for watching!
Way to rock the summit of Hood in February, and board er down from the Devils Kitchen. Pretty Epic adventure, I'd be wiped too!
The trip was pretty epic. We were all exhausted after finishing up. The snowboarding conditions were tough, but we were happy to have done what we did that day.
Awesome video, your Devils kitchen is a bit different to ours here in Snowdonia Wales.
Glad you enjoyed the video! Funny that the same name can be used in multiple places.
This video is almost a year old now, but I was just wondering why you guys chose to go directly over the bergschrund instead of going slightly to the left and around it? I've never climbed Hood, so I was wondering why this decision is made. I've seen other videos of people going over instead of around it too. Why is that? Is there another obstacle directly to the left of the bergschrund that forces you to go over it?
It is really steep and there are fumaroles on either side of the Hogsback. Going over the bergschrund was the simplest route for us at the time and pretty fun too. Thanks for watching!
Climbing directly over the Bergschrund seems like an incredibly bad idea. All the guides state to traverse it if its open.