Simply^Ride

Nope, I am hoping in making out there next season for my first trip. We will see if I can make it happen, yes the pictures came out very nice.

packthe9

well not to diminish your trip to mt. hood in any way (like i said pics are awesome) but utah is amazing. i highly recommend it. i rode there this past season for the first time and it was just incredible. conditions were just ridiculous. so much fresh snow i didnt even know what to do with myself. ill have to post some pics.

Snowolf

Summer riding ta Timberline is awesome. This year it is going to be epic. If you check this thread:http://www.snowboardingforum.com/sno...er-day-mt.html This was this Wedensday and they got another 10 inches after that. Utah is awesome to be sure, but Mt. Hood has the longest season of anywhere and the Cascade volcanoes and the Washington Olympics have great hikable backcountry to ride all summer long. Mt. Hood Meadows where I work is almost always up and running by Thanksgiving and always runs well into May. We could be operating right now with over 170 inches still on the ground but people tend to quit coming by mid May so they shut down. There is no profit turning empty chairs and burning $5.00 per gallon diesel in Grooming cats just to get 50 people showing up the next day. I hate it, but I understand Meadow`s decission.

Here is the Palmer chair in late August. The Palmer snowfield up top is about a half mile long and about that wide. The gulleys below take you all the way to the bottom of Palmer and are actually a lot of fun to ride. They set up a nice terrain park in one of the deeper ones. I can`t find my pics of that from last summer however.



By the end of summer, you download Magic Mile back to the lodge.


There is one gulley full of snow that you can ride almost all of the way, but this was a bad snow year. This year, I predict there will be good, rideable snow all the way to the lodge well into August.


Evening shot of Palmer and the hikable terrain above in August

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saturday22

drinkings a summer sport? i do it year round..

i'm having trouble dealing with summer without snowboarding as well. i've been trying to put my mind on other things, like skateboarding, surfing, and paintball. but the snow is alwaays in the back of my mind..

packthe9

timberline looks pretty sweet but i wish i lived closer. id have to spend a decent bit getting out there during the summer and i dont know if id want to spend that much not even knowing what kind of conditions id get. i suppose maybe ill just have to start saving my pennies and spring for a trip to the andes in a year or two....still, thanks for the pics of mt. hood it still looks like an awesome place to ride

Simply^Ride

I know Utah is amazing, but my trip was late season and hood got over 800 of snow this season, so it was a better call than Utah. But I do plan to hit snowbird and other resorts next season.

sedition

ok, I clearly need to move.

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Simply^Ride

And I believe that's on a average snow year, imagine this one with 800" inches plus of snow . But the thing about timberline is that their terrain is on the mellow side. I would of loved to explore Meadows or Ski bowl to some steeps. Oh well maybe next year, depending on the economy

Snowolf

What is amazing this year is we are now entering June with a huge snowpack. Last year which was average saw green grass at the lodge and lots of those ridgelines on Palmer and Mile exposed. This year it still looks like an average winter day up top. I have yet been able to get over into Big Zig Zag Canyon due to the 100 foot cornices and high avy danger. I will be posting pics as summer progresses. This is one for the books.

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con3593

Ive picked up a pretty sweet off season sport...I call it hospitaling...you pretty much go and get different surgeries throughout the off season....I'm on #5 for this year woot woot!