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Hope

In Oregon, Search and Rescue, Weather on 11 December 2006 with no comments

Is all you can do sometimes.

COOPER SPUR, Ore. (AP) - Rescue teams headed up the flanks of treacherous Mount Hood on Monday to search for three climbers reported missing in heavy snow, but were ordered off the mountain when conditions became too dangerous.

Having been lost before, as well as having gone through both search and rescue training and missions, I can feel for everyone involved and only hope for the best of outcomes. The right guys are out there (Portland Mountain Rescue, Hood River Crag Rats), and at least the guys have the skills they’d need to stay alive. The problem is the weather, which isn’t exactly cooperating, and in those kinds of cases all you can do is wait and pray.

And hope.

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