I have climbed on Hood before and you below timberline there is really no climbing just a nice walk in the wood. This is most likely the media misrespresentation of people in the woods. I have spent the night on hood at 10k and woke and it is so bad you lose the enterance to the snow cave within 3 feet of the enterance. Well you have a map and compass and know how to use it, okay you know where you are on the map too. Finding a geocache amazes as most are hidden pretty well, I know I geocache, and I bet they were geocachers that found the cache and just couldn't figure out where they had left the car. O'well they are safe and probably not much smarter.
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