Talk:1986 Mount Hood disaster

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Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I pulled most of the information from the Outside piece linked in the reflist. There are numerous other articles and stories about this event that can be found on google, but I'm not exactly sure how to reference the information I've already written aside from the Outside piece. Mr Ernie (talk) 20:00, 5 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Reverted to older version

Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Three edits made in late 2019 radically altered the facts presented in the article and removed citations. The changes were made by a brand new account, which claimed to be acting "at the request of survivors, rescuers, and grieving family members". No additional sources were given to support the changes made. I found the quality of the prose added by this user to be dreadful, and the changes significantly harmed the quality of the article. I have therefore reverted the article to its state before those edits were made.

The changes that I undid are these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1986_Mount_Hood_Disaster&type=revision&diff=923372733&oldid=869231441

The user who made the changes is:

SARfactchecker (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

I am not familiar with the incident and could not vouch for the accuracy of everything currently in the article. But of course, changes need to be supported by reliable sources so that they can be verified. Trople (talk) 07:18, 21 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Looks to be an improvement. Thanks for that. Mr Ernie (talk) 19:23, 6 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Independently sourced "did not go on the climb" classmate account (COI disclosed)

Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi. I'm Patrick Lamb, an Oregon Episcopal sophomore at the time of the May 1986 climb. I did not go on the climb because I twisted my ankle in indoor soccer the night before — that part of the story is on the record in a 2016 KATU News interview by Steve Dunn and is also referenced briefly in Pauls Toutonghi's 2018 Outside retrospective.

I have a conflict of interest (I'm a working musician with a userspace draft biography), so I'm not editing the article directly. I'm leaving this here in case anyone working on the "near-miss" / "surviving classmate" framing of the article finds the sourcing useful. KATU and Outside are both independent reliable sources.

Available to provide additional sources or answer factual questions on request. Updatepatrickfacts (talk) 04:36, 30 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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