Editing Mount Hood (section)

===Current name===
[[File:Northcote, Samuel Hood.jpg|alt=Oil painting of a British admiral|thumb|Admiral Hood, the mountain's namesake]]
The mountain was given its present name on October&nbsp;29, 1792, by [[William Robert Broughton|Lt. William Broughton]], a member of Captain [[George Vancouver]]'s exploration expedition. Lt. Broughton observed its peak while at Belle Vue Point of what is now called [[Sauvie Island]] during his travels up the Columbia River, writing, "A very high, snowy mountain now appeared rising beautifully conspicuous in the midst of an extensive tract of low or moderately elevated land [location of today's [[Vancouver, Washington]]] lying S 67 E., and seemed to announce a termination to the river." Lt. Broughton named the mountain after [[Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood]], a British admiral.<ref name="Swanson"/>
[[File:Albert_Bierstadt_-_Mount_Hood.jpg|alt=Landscape painting with a lake in the foreground and snow capped Mount Hood in the distance|left|thumb|[[Albert Bierstadt]], ''Mount Hood'', 1869]]
[[Lewis and Clark]] spotted the mountain on October&nbsp;18, 1805. A few days later at what would become [[The Dalles, Oregon|The Dalles]], Clark wrote, "The pinnacle of the round topped mountain, which we saw a short distance below the banks of the river, is South 43-degrees West of us and about {{cvt|37|mi|km}}. It is at this time topped with snow. We called this the Falls Mountain, or Timm Mountain." Timm was the native name for Celilo Falls. Clark later noted that it was also Vancouver's Mount Hood.<ref name="firsttouch">Grauer, p. 9</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/Historical/LewisClark/volcanoes_lewis_clark.html |title=The Volcanoes of Lewis and Clark – October 1805 to June 1806: Introduction |publisher=U.S. Geological Survey |first=Lyn |last=Topinka |date=2004-06-29 |access-date=2013-07-17 |archive-date=2013-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224231349/http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/Historical/LewisClark/volcanoes_lewis_clark.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Two French explorers from the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] may have traveled into the [[Dog River (Oregon)|Dog River]] area east of Mount Hood in 1818. They reported climbing to a glacier on "Montagne de Neige" (''Mountain of Snow''), probably Eliot Glacier.<ref name="firsttouch"/>