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Old 09-28-2010, 04:18 PM
 
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Landslide. As glaciers melt, they sometimes form dams. In particularly hot weather, the melt rate gets really high, and you get summer flooding.
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Old 09-30-2010, 10:11 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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why was it a land slide
Everything is downhill from Mt. Hood. Big hunks of the mountain are nothing but ash cemented together. Sooner or later, large pieces of the mountain will collapse, hopefully not until the next eruption. Keep your fingers crossed. That hump on the south side of the mountain formed when a third of the peak decided to drop a few thousand feet in a few minutes.
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Old 07-07-2014, 02:35 AM
 
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Yep...

I forget which glacier it was, but it gave way causing a HUGE landslide that took out a large portion of HWY 35. You should have seen the spit where the Hood River meets the Columbia! It was insane.

Found a photo. It was 1000x worse in person.
The big area of Hwy 35 affected was on the south side of Mt. Hood, not near the Parkdale Lava Flow. The OP was referring to the area at the south edge of that lava flow (north of Mt. Hood) caused by a separate event.

http://goo.gl/maps/7W0Cd
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