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We had a few days of pleasant weather and so I went XC skiing. I took Pancho to the Dog Park with classic stuff and yesterday we went back with skate skis and hit the park and Virginia Meissner. VM is a community nordic ski area at 5200' across from Wanoga Park where the dog facilities are...

The Dirksen Derby is always a gas. I had a great first run but got bogged down and missed the podium. No prob, the boys were here and Carson was 12th in the Elite Division. He missed the qualifier for his Men's Division start due to poor planning and weather, so he raced with the Big Boys (and...

Thanks Admin! While we were exchanging info the offending driver told me she had just moved her family here and that "I had it in four wheel drive"!!!! I had to explain that was for getting started and not stopping. Looks like this storm is headed your way. We just got another 14" overnight...

My sons are in town for the Dirksen Derby, so Spenny and I got up early to go ride the 7" of dense new that fell overnight. There was a break in between systems so the visibilities were good early and then it started snowing hard. It's busy here with all the powder-starved folks really showing...

Sorry for the radio silence, no excuses. I will apologize for the lack of pics ahead of time. Today was unexpectedly good after a two day rain event. Yesterday it snowed 5" of concrete on a snowpack that was approaching 30" at our lowish 6300 foot base. No doubt it got damaged by the rain, but...

Top of Outback Chair

Soothes the soul after a torrid summer. Fall is the great time of the year, you're like an expectant parent wondering how this year's "child" will turn out. We of course are up against the unusually warm eastern Pacific, so I'm going in with low expectations. But anything can happen around here...

After a searing summer and a wishy-washy forecast for this upcoming winter, it was nice to awake to chilly temperatures and a dusting of snow on the Three Sisters. I'm guessing the snow level was around 8000' and more snow is expected on Friday night. The ski area's forecaster mentioned we have...

Day 44 Well, those days have been piling up lately as the conditions have been really good. This morning we got a couple three inches and I wasn't counting on much. The usual dust on crust I thought, but the surface was quite nice. Groomers + new were best, of course. Iceberg Run this morning...

From the Mt Bachelor website this morning: You can smell the stoke in the air! Wednesday has turned out to be one of the best powder days of the season. The sun is out with low winds, lift lines are non-existant, and the snow is amazing! Summit was all time first thing and those who showed up...

Today was a total sleeper. One would be cautiously optimistic with a 2-4" new overnight and 20 degrees. But it's mid-April in a drought year after two days of baking sun. Well, my first run off Skyline and I'm in shin-deep fluff with an occasional face shot but you can feel the frozen...

Yep. Powder tomorrow and a Summit day Sunday and Wednesday. Well done.

And the hits just keep on coming here in the Central Oregon Cascades. I last reported a week ago on Thursday, which I felt was argueably the best day so far this season. Since then we've had snow nearly everyday and our mid-mountain snowpack is at 100", not bad for this year! Last Saturday was...

I know, standards are low this season out west. Yesterday I went up and got a super fun session on 4" conservatively (Congressionally speaking) of very high quality fresh that fell on the day before's 2-3" windblown. So it was nice to get in some pow turns after a long, dry winter. You barely...

Memorial Day weekend Read this: World's Snowiest Ski Area Is Closed By Jim S Mt. Baker, which averages nearly 650 inches of snow a year (thought to be the highest of any ski area in the in the world) and received a world record 1,140 inches of snow in the 1998/99 season, is temporarily closed...

The quote "A nearly permanent ridge over the west and all the storms going up and over, you know the drill!" are my words and not those of Weather Bell. Every winter season is different and my experience with 1976-1977 is based on what happened at Mammoth Mountain that woeful year. It did start...

I haven’t been too prolific about describing conditions here at Mt Bachelor this season, obviously. It’s not that there was a lack of base, we have enjoyed one of the deepest snowpacks in the West this season. It’s the surface conditions that have bummed us out. There is certainly no need to...

It's nice to have someone else do the talking. Conditions here have been exceptional considering the lack of average snowfall. I've met people from all over the far west who are here to get in some snow time. I was hoping to meet up with tseeb but my son Carson was here with Ride Snowboards...

The parade of pacific storms continues. Yesterday was fun with 5" to start and continuous snowfall throughout the day. I rode Outback Express for the first time and the snow was great as the whole area was unskied so far this season. The upper areas you could be aggressive but lower down you...

Hey Admin, Thanks for that video, I haven't seen it. Here's another Schubert, this one was on the podium at last weekend's Dirksen Derby Banked Slalom finals (Older & Wiser Division).