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    Video Date: 
    Thursday, October 10, 2013
    Glacier Caves: Mount Hood's Secret World
    Glacier Caves: Behind the Scenes
    Video Date: 
    Thursday, November 14, 2013
    Ice Crawlers
    Tyson Gillard
    Photo Date: 
    01/04/2014
    Old-growth forest of noble fir and western hemlock.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250') from Bald Mountain's southern slope.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Sunrise through the forest en route to McNeil Point.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250') en route to McNeil Point.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Contributor Eric Guth looking out from the McNeil Point Ridge just below the shelter.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250') and the McNeil Point Shelter.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    McNeil Point Shelter.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250') and the McNeil Point Shelter.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Climbing above the McNeil Point Shelter.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Muddy Fork Canyon illuminated.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Beginning of the off-trail traverse en route to the Sandy Glacier Caves.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250').
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood's Sandy Glacier Caves in view.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood's Sandy Glacier Caves in view.
    Andrew Stohner
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    11/29/2015
    A view of the caves from McNeil Point
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Off-trail traverse en route to the Sandy Glacier Caves.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    En route to the Sandy Glacier Caves.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    View of Snow Dragon's main entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    View of Snow Dragon's main entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Snow Dragon's main entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Panoramic view of Snow Dragon's entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Snow Dragon ice.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Snow Dragon ice.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Snow Dragon.
    Eric Guth
    Photo Date: 
    10/29/2013
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: main entry to Snow Dragon.
    Eric Guth
    Photo Date: 
    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: main entry to Snow Dragon.
    Eric Guth
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Snow Dragon.
    Eric Guth
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: icy stalagmite formations in Snow Dragon.
    Eric Guth
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    01/04/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Snow Dragon.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Sunrise from Snow Dragon.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Sunrise view of Mount St. Helens (8,365') from Snow Dragon.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Morning view from Snow Dragon.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    View of Snow Dragon's main entrance and the Muddy Fork of the Sandy River.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Pure Imagination's lower entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Pure Imagination's lower entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Tyson Gillard
    Photo Date: 
    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Eric Guth
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Inside Pure Imagination: rock debris hazards from the ceiling are present throughout the cave.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: inside Pure Imagination.
    Eric Guth
    Photo Date: 
    10/03/2013
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Brent McGregor explores Pure Imagination.
    Eric Guth
    Photo Date: 
    10/04/2013
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Brent McGregor explores Pure Imagination.
    Eric Guth
    Photo Date: 
    10/29/2013
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: ice formations in Pure Imagination.
    Andrew Stohner
    Photo Date: 
    04/18/2015
    Team photo inside Pure Imagination
    Eric Guth
    Photo Date: 
    10/29/2013
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Grylloblattid (Grylloblatta) also commonly called "ice crawlers".
    Eric Guth
    Photo Date: 
    10/29/2013
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Grylloblattid (Grylloblatta) also commonly called "ice crawlers".
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood, Sandy Glacier Caves: Snow Dragon's main entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Snow camping equipment.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250') and Snow Dragon's entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    View of Frozen Minotaur's entrance.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250') from the Sandy Glacier.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    View of Mount St. Helens (8,365'), Mount Rainier (14,411'), and Mount Adams (12,281') from just above McNeil Point.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Departing and passing the McNeil Point Shelter.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Descending the "climber's route" just below McNeil Point.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Mount Hood (11,250').
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Sunset through the forest just above the Top Spur Trailhead.
    Tyson Gillard
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    01/05/2014
    Sunset through the forest just above the Top Spur Trailhead.

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