Episode 116: The 1986 Mount Hood incident

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🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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It's time for the yearly school trip - no, not to Washington, DC, or the Grand Canyon or New Orleans. In 1986, as every year before it, the kids in the Basecamp program at Oregon Episcopal School participated in a special trip - a climb up Mount Hood in the Cascade mountain range. But when the group left the school late on the night of May 11th, 1986, to head to Mount Hood for the opportunity of a lifetime, they had no idea nine of them would not be coming back alive.

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1:56.5	Episode 116, the 1986 Mount Hood Inc. May 12, 1986. Nine deceased, two injured.
2:08.7	So my first time in college, I decided I needed to get out. Make some friends, join a club or something.
2:15.4	So I picked the outdoors club, although to this day I couldn't tell you why.
2:20.1	They would go skydiving, and the only way you're getting me to jump out of a plane is if it's on fire.
2:25.4	They would go bungee jumping, and I have a hard enough time crossing bridges, much less jumping off of them.
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