On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon’s Perilous Peak

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On Mount Hood is a latest, first-person narrative biography of Oregon’s greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and places, trivia and lore. The mountain itself helps create the notorious Oregon rains and deep alpine snows, and prepared the ground for snowboarding in the mid 1980s. Its forests provide one of the vital purest drinking water on the planet, and its snowy peak captures the attention of the nation almost each and every time it wreaks fatal havoc on climbers looking for the summit. On Mount Hood builds a compelling story of a legendary mountain and its have an effect on on the people who live in its shadow, and includes interviews with a forest activist, a volcanologist, and a para-rescue jumper. Jon Bell has been writing from his home base in Oregon for the reason that late 1990s. His work has gave the impression in Backpacker, The Oregonian, The Rowing News, Oregon Coast, and plenty of other publications. He lives in Lake Oswego, OR.

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