mosaic1

great bar, and biggest night ski resort! yeah son! i love oregon so much!

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fainerbainer

I like skibowl because it's like a backwoods resort. I feel "home" there because I'm poor. lol. At the other resorts it's too touristy.

And actually it's in Government Camp, OR if anyone is wondering. I live about 40 miles from there on the west side of the mountain. Good stuff.

mosaic1

yeah it really does have that home woodsy feeling mt. bachelor is a really good mountain/ski resort too in bend. i dont really like hoodoo though.

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fainerbainer

I've only been to meadows and skibowl. I haven't made it down to bachelor. I'm going to timberline tomorrow.

Meadows has people crawling everywhere with all kinds of people speaking different languages (especially during peak times). Skibowl is pretty laid back and there is one guy that works there that I like. He reminds me of a hippy but he always has good one liners when you get to the lift.

Snowolf

The thing I like about the entire Mt. Hood area is the diversity amongst all three ski/ride areas. Meadows has the most advanced terrain and is the largest area. Timberline has the best parks, least crowds, best views and best snow. The atmosphere there is the most laid back and mellow. Skibowl has incrdible terrain and an very "local" feel, not to mention awesome night riding. The old, slow lifts can be a bit annoying with the main lift beings so long that they should have an in-flight movie.... The up side though is this keeps the area from getting tracked out in the first hour of opening. With these thress great places to ride, there is something for everyone at Mt. Hood.

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Simply^Ride

Granted I only rode Timberline, the whole Mt.hood scene is incredible very friendly people and riders seem to out weight skiers. The villages around it offer great accommodation and good food at a reasonable price. Hood deserves a chance at least to visited once as a riding destination, I read somewhere that they are planning to join Ski bowl to timberline with a tram, to make it more a ski/rider destination. Snowolf told me that they use to have something similar long time ago, but it was so outdated that it was removed. They have a few pictures of it up in Timberline.

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Snowolf

Yeah, it was a whacky idea that did`nt work so well. In 1951, they built a tram from Govy to Timberline Lodge using old city busses hung from cables. There is talk today still of a viable tram connecting Govy with Timberline and there has even been talk of an extension across White River Canyon to the top of Vista at Mt. Hood Meadows. Besides Forest Service authorizations, the greatest challenge to such a proposal would be the intense winds that occurr on Vista, making such a tram unreliable. Still, some pretty interesting history. Here are a few pics of the old buggar and some links to several Portland and Mt. Hood historical sites.

Mt Hood

Skiway(1951) | Mt. Hood Tram Website

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