Plane doesn’t find Mt. Hood climbers

A National Guard C-130 circled Mt. Hood in search of three missing climbers but found nothing, its commander said.

Rescue workers hampered by three storms this week hoped for a break in the weather today and were planning a major push by climbing teams up the mountain’s upper elevations. Mountaineering experts said that to survive, the missing climbers had to have dug good shelters.

Searchers had hoped the cargo plane would give them information about where to look on the 11,239-foot mountain, which authorities closed to everyone except for search crews to eliminate possible false clues from tracks or cellphones.