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Show inii WON BY HUDSON SIK Thr distinction of beinR the first automobile to rlimb Mount Hood. Oregon, Ore-gon, as far as Rhododendron Tnn in thr- month of .Tannarv. was won on January 2i by the Hudson Light tiix-40. Rhododendron Inn is 64 miles from Portland and well up thr slopes of Mount Hood It Is no difficult matfpr to automobilr to Cloud Cap Inn on Mount Hood In the summer time. Bui to make a trip suet) as was mad b the Hudson Six in thr month of .Ian uar is a feat that never before has ber-n arrompllshed. Not until the Hudson struck sno about f h e Inches dorp war, it turur-r about for the return trip At Rhododendron Rho-dodendron Inn the passensers were delighted with the information given b the keepers that the Hudson Six was the first ear to reach that point as early in the year as January. No automobile party ever had ascended so high at that season On the return trip the Hudson Six left the inn at 4 o clock and reached Portland two hours and fifty mlnutpp later, makinc the fifty-four miles without with-out the car beinp stopped once For the round trip there was used 7 12 I gallons of gasoline and 16 cents w orth of oil. This in a little better than 11 miles to the gallon for a mountain trip up Mount Hood in January, som" thing unique in the annals of mountain moun-tain motoring. |