Shred Hood is a community news and information website founded in 2013 to cover the skiing, snowboarding, and outdoor enthusiast scene on Mount Hood. The vision is to serve the people who love Mount Hood in winter with a lively, reliable source of relevant information and entertainment.

The site is live year-round with coverage of summer snow sports on the mountain, bicycling, kite and windsurfing, hiking and climbing and other activities popular with the mountain community, as well as environmental, cultural and economic stories as they break.

To suggest story ideas, submit stories/photos or contribute media, click here.

Shred Hood Editor and Publisher Ben Jacklet (pictured at Ski Bowl during a Club Race in 2016) began skiing at age 5 in New Hampshire and has been a professional writer, editor and publisher for 28 years. To contact Ben, click here.

Shred Hood, LLC is a media company registered in Portland, Oregon and supported by businesses and organizations that want to reach a passionate audience of skiers, snowboarders and mountain enthusiasts. Our primary sponsor is the sun, or rather roof-top solar energy systems for Oregon homes. 

To inquire about sponsorship opportunities with Shred Hood, click here.