PORTLAND, Oregon — Around 6,000 feet up Mount Hood, a team of engineers and scientists are teaching a dog-like robot how to walk across the mountain's terrain. The robot, named Spirit, uses its four ...

Many of the glaciers and snowfields on Mount Hood are named after explorers and mountaineers, including Newton Clark, Elijah “Lige” Coalman, Henry Coe, Thomas Eliot, Rodney Glisan and Joel Palmer.

On rocky outcrops 6,000 feet up Mount Hood’s ski slopes, Spirit the robot took one small step for robots, one giant leap for science. “It’s literally a robotic dog form,” said Feifei Qian, an ...