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On this day in 1854 Thomas Dryer, publisher of the Weekly Oregonian and first person to climb Mt. St. Helens, claimed he ascended Mt. Hood. Accompanying him were a man named Wells Lane and an unidentified Indian. Dryer reported 20' to 50' cones at intervals of a few rods, and between them were "numerous holes varying from the size of a common water bucket down to two or three inches in diameter. Through these breathing holes--as we shall call them--and through the crevices in the rocks there is constantly escaping hot smoke or gas of a strong sulphuric odor." Dryer's claim of the first ascent of the mountain was not challenged until the Pittock Party climbed three years later.
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