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Mount Hood: So mild-mannered, you forget it’s an active volcano

Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 2 p.m.

Back when the Mazama Club formed, with membership open only to those who had climbed old Wy’East, standing on top of the mountain meant more than it does today. Just 35 years earlier, fire had been belching out of it. (Mount Hood, Clackamas County; 1894) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1705b.mount-hood-active-volcano-443.html)