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Woman rescued after falling several hundred feet on Mount Hood
Portland Mountain Rescue volunteers saw the woman fall and began the rescue effort immediately.
Grassroots group gets people of color on the slopes of Mount Hood
Open Slopes PDX is getting people of color into the historically white-dominated world of winter sports.

Tribal elders ask US Supreme Court to hear case over a desecrated site on Mount Hood
The Yakama and Grand Ronde tribes are asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on their claim that an expansion of Highway 26 in 2008 violated their religious freedom by destroying an ancient burial site, a stone altar and old-growth trees.

Rediscovering Oregon’s lost Skyline Trail
A dad and daughter are retracing a lost Oregon hiking trail – one step at a time.
Crews suspend search for missing snowboarder on Mount Hood
The search for a snowboarder who was reported missing on Mount Hood has been suspended after three days.

Search for missing snowboarder on Mount Hood will continue Thursday
Searchers worked throughout the day Wednesday in an effort to locate missing snowboarder Ryan Mathers on Mount Hood.

1 climber dead, another rescued after fall on Mount Hood
A climber died and another was in critical condition Monday night after falling on Oregon's tallest mountain.

Four Mount Hood rescues last week highlight increased dangerous activity since pandemic
Four rescue missions took place on Mt. Hood in just the past week. Portland Mountain Rescue said that rescues have increased as more people have opted to partake in mountainous winter recreation in the last decade.

Snow prompts closures along Mount Hood, cuts off access to some ski slopes
It was too snowy access the slopes at some of Northwest Oregon's best-known downhill ski areas on Tuesday, as extreme weather prompted the Mt. Hood Meadows, SkiBowl and Timberline ski areas to close for the day. U.S. Highway 26 was closed to traffic for a nearly 20-mile stretch.

Extreme weather closes Oregon freeways, roads, prompts calls to stay home
Wind and snow conditions are so extreme that many snow plow drivers can not see the roads well enough to plow them. In Eastern Oregon, Interstate 84 was intermittently closed and reopened through the afternoon, and the interstate was closed through the Columbia River Gorge