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They Entered Where Others Turned Back

The decision to continue was made at eleven minutes past two in the afternoon, in good weather, with full provisions and seven hours of daylight remaining. On the morning of August 14th, 1902, six members of the Portland Alpine Society departed from the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood's southern face. Their objective was modest by the standards of the day: a traverse to Cooper Spur via the summit ridge, then descent by the established eastern route. The party consisted of Edward Hollis, aged forty-one, a surgeon and veteran of four previous summit attempts; his wife Catherine, thirty-eight, an experienced climber in her own right; James Brennan, twenty-nine, a surveyor with the Oregon Land Office; Margaret Voss, thirty-four, a schoolteacher from Salem; Robert Chen, twenty-six, a mining engineer originally from San Francisco; and Henry Dalton, fifty-three, who served as their guide.