
Eric and I decided not to ascend the Hog's Back, but instead sidled round its base in order to get to the foot of the final section of the south face of Mt Hood. It took us less than fifteen minutes to make this move, and this is a photograph looking back at the route we'd taken – it's the lighter of the two tracks curving through the snow (i.e., it's the track on the left) – at the bottom of the Hog's Back. |