Thread: 11/12 Mt. Hood

Originally Posted by powholic

Saturday was perfect, kept the gapers off the mountain. Those people who complained are the same ones clogging the lines on Sunday

powdr is bad.........
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Originally Posted by jonesy

powdr is bad.........
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I was waiting for this. So wish I was over in Bend this last weekend. Looked like ridiculously good conditions...

In other news, TimberFlats on Sunday was...ummm...FLAT. The family had a good time though!

Saturday was excellent ... I tucked the lady into the lodge and enjoyed the face and Jacob's ladder late afternoon. Sunday was gaper hell but Rock Garden was wonderful, as were the elevators after they opened Cascade late. All funky right now up there with lots of deep blue ice and then big pillows of powder over the ridges.

scavenging for leftovers at the bowl tonight

thanks to vitamin water and meadows i scored 2 tix for thurs, i have placed word with some buds but so far nobody has claimed the extra ticket...
if you happen to be around meadows on thurs and want to show me around or possibly you or a friend need a hookup, well let me know, i havent skied meadows since HS (90's) and would love some company if solo

looks like a solid week, get some!

mt bailey on saturday = FKNA! untracked all day long!!
bachelor cinder cone on sunday midday (cuz i'm cheap!) = boot to knee deep despite already tracked

great f%'n weekend!!!
(even if i missed a good storm at MHM)

i think i'm coming down with a cold (cough! cough!)
the brunt of it may hit me wednesday morning early and may last until mid afternoon!

Originally Posted by acinpdx

mt bailey on saturday = FKNA! untracked all day long!!
bachelor cinder cone on sunday midday (cuz i'm cheap!) = boot to knee deep despite already tracked

great f%'n weekend!!!
(even if i missed a good storm at MHM)

i think i'm coming down with a cold (cough! cough!)
the brunt of it may hit me wednesday morning early and may last until mid afternoon!

Nice. I watch Bailey conditions daily, since going there. Looked incredible. I want back down there...

just to clarify i was complaining about sunday and i wasn't miserable riding with with a longtime buddy. i just haven't ridden on a weekend for so long my psyche was shocked by the liftline wait. i didn't have the good fortune to make it up for storm riding on saturday.

Originally Posted by spook

just to clarify i was complaining about sunday and i wasn't miserable riding with with a longtime buddy. i just haven't ridden on a weekend for so long my psyche was shocked by the liftline wait. i didn't have the good fortune to make it up for storm riding on saturday.

Yeah, it is hard to bring myself to ride weekends at Meadows for that reason.

yesterday at Meadows jumped from a 7/10 to a 9.5/10 right around 2PM when they started spinning Heather. Jack's was insane. Best I've had it. 5 laps of untracked bottomless joy. Best part was, between the long lift lines discouraging people and Cascade opening up and distracting everyone...there were very few people in Heather. What few there were kept lapping Ho Chi, which left the upper gate to me and my friend. Taking the extra chair up Star to access that gate proved to be the move. I was putting my new tracks next to my last ones for 1.5 hours in 20 degree powder, sun shining, on a weekend. Given how crowded the resort was all morning, I could hardly believe it. Meadows on a Sunday is funny like that sometimes, just gotta wait it out. I got first tracks of the season in PR earlier this year at 2:30 on a Sunday too. Go figure. Just gotta hit it right.

born to ski, forced to work.

ps - to all of you who got to play in upper Heather and Clarks today...I hate you. Now, please tell me about it.

Originally Posted by LifeIsHood

....and Cascade opening up and distracting everyone...there were very few people in Heather.....

yeah yeah yeah I missed it ... enjoyed pillowy stuff off Cascade here and there, but I definitely missed out.

I was amazed at how the places had cleared out by 2:30.

Originally Posted by LifeIsHood

yesterday at Meadows jumped from a 7/10 to a 9.5/10 right around 2PM when they started spinning Heather. Jack's was insane. Best I've had it. 5 laps of untracked bottomless joy. Best part was, between the long lift lines discouraging people and Cascade opening up and distracting everyone...there were very few people in Heather. What few there were kept lapping Ho Chi, which left the upper gate to me and my friend. Taking the extra chair up Star to access that gate proved to be the move. I was putting my new tracks next to my last ones for 1.5 hours in 20 degree powder, sun shining, on a weekend. Given how crowded the resort was all morning, I could hardly believe it. Meadows on a Sunday is funny like that sometimes, just gotta wait it out. I got first tracks of the season in PR earlier this year at 2:30 on a Sunday too. Go figure. Just gotta hit it right.

born to ski, forced to work.

congrats! i figured that was going to happen in heather when they kept bombing through the morning and things cleared out as usual a bit after lunch. my buddy needed to leave at 2 so i missed it.

Originally Posted by LifeIsHood

ps - to all of you who got to play in upper Heather and Clarks today...I hate you. Now, please tell me about it.

Yeah, it was pretty good. Scavenged throughout the morning on MHX, once it looked a little clearer I jumped on Cascade. First bump up - rope drops. First tracks in diamond, yeah, it was pretty good. But only, "pretty" good. You would ride quality, deep, pnw blower but then you would hit super wind buff. Then blower, then buff. Lower rode well (moon and down, that is. Mostly working the gullies and trees in between in upper jacks). After 3 or 4 laps through lower the line got to around 6 mins and I decided to go jump over some trees for awhile instead. It was a good day. Wednesday should line up to be $$$.

three days of touring in a row, Saturday-White River, Sunday-Tom Dick and Harry, Monday-TDH

Definitely the best couple of days of skiing I've had on Hood.







Now to start editing video..

Damn.........the dog is scoping a line for him. How did you teach him to do that?

I"m thinking Benk's dog is in better shape than any other in these parts. Great pictures and video btw.

Originally Posted by Ducky

I"m thinking Benk's dog is in better shape than any other in these parts. Great pictures and video btw.

i'm thinking Benk's dog gets out more than I do.

Skied the past three days with benk and his famous dog. Saturday was sick deep:





Sunday was also sick deep, but didn't pull the camera out. Some video below. Monday was like this:



The snow was...still good. benk + yogi:





Where's benk?



Zone: shredded



Finally, my 3 days of skiing condensed into 5 minutes. Starring, of course, benk's dog:

^ while I had plenty of deep turns on Saturday, I am jealous of what you guys got after on TDH ridge. Nice!

The famous yogi is ripping his line and checks out benk slashing a turn,now that is one cool dog.

It really pisses me off when real life gets in the way of a ridiculous storm cycle. Out for the next few days. Hope you all get some.

Money shot above!

sweet stoke!
benk and crew, when you talk tom dick harry, is that slackable from the bowl or west off the ridge around mirror lake?
some of those pics confuse me but i think im just mixing up two different cliff bands from that angle, complete bc jong...

i need to get my editing skills up to par, too much take and not enough give of the stoke, final cut tutorial where are you...

anyone at meadows tomorrow?
anyone want a free ticket?
i will be solo with an extra pass... love some company, promise i wont slow you down... much

Benk and SEMag, nice work - that looks sick. Nice cycle we are in right now! I need to get out with you guys soon.

Hit Ski Bowl last night, rolled in around 7:15pm, didn't disappoint! Some of the lightest snow I've had at the Bowl!

Thinking of Meadows tomorrow morning...

Can't tour this weekend, have friends in town and at a cabin, next weekend in LA. I need to get out there soon!

haha. thanks for making me feel better, puma. misery loves company!