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The First Ascent of The Pencil, Mt. Hood

Jul 10, 2017

In the winter season that just continued to give to us ice and alpine climbers, we tried to zero in on another objective. We had always heard "The Pencil" come up as the obvious unclimbed line on the north side of Mt. Hood. We had thrown around attempting it numerous times within our small little circle of climbing partners, but for one reason or another we just couldn’t make schedules and the weather line up as per usual.

New Routes on Mt. Hood (Part 1)

Jun 07, 2017

My buddy Tim Bemrich and I were debating objectives one winter weekend. Portland had been in a serious cold spell and many climbers were taking advantage of a freshly frozen over Columbia River Gorge scene. We debated joining in the Gorge fun, but we both had slightly bigger ambitions for this weather window. It seemed like a great, and somewhat rare, opportunity to finally check out the mysterious Black Spider Headwall on Mt. Hood.

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