Matt Aldridge was well on his way up the incline of Mount Hood on Saturday when he realized things weren’t going to plan.
He and two friends were making slower time than they intended on the treacherous terrain, and his climbing partners were turning back. Aldridge reached for his phone and called his mom.
The 26-year-old wasn’t sure he would make it to the summit, he explained, and he thought it wiser to take an alternate route back down…