{"id":80545,"date":"2018-07-14T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T12:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80545"},"modified":"2018-07-14T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T12:36:53","slug":"mount-hood-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80545","title":{"rendered":"Mount Hood rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A climber was stranded on Mount Hood and the team sent to rescue him also got stranded. So, the Oregon National Guard got involved. When a Blackhawk helicopter coudn’t make the rescue, they called for a Chinook according to KOMO<\/a>;<\/p>\n

By Friday morning, snow had firmed up overnight and a six-person rescue team climbed to the 11,250-foot summit. Unfortunately, by the time the team reached the climber, conditions were too dangerous to climb back down.<\/p>\n

Chris Ingersoll, a civilian spokesperson for the Guard, says a Black Hawk helicopter that initially arrived at the scene was not able to get up to the summit, which is why the Chinook from Pendleton was called in.<\/p>\n

“Most helicopters really struggle to even get up to that altitude, as the air gets really thin. So we have to use the Chinook, which is one of our aircraft that’s powerful enough to get up to that altitude. It also gets difficult because at summit rescues the winds change direction and intensity fairly rapidly,” said Ingersoll.<\/p>\n

Instead of lowering down a rope to hoist the climber and rescuers up, the Chinook did a two-wheel land and lowered a ramp to get all seven people on board. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a video of the rescue at the link above.<\/p>\n

Thanks to CK for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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