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Culture/Style

One of Mt. Hood’s Great Ski Adventures, with Plenty of Tradition

Ski the Glade happens annually in March and it is a true bucket list event for any Mt. Hood skier or snowboarder....

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Accidents and Rescues

Yes, You Can Fall of a Chairlift, and Yes, It Would Be Bad

Did you hear about the young child who fell off the lift on Mount Hood Saturday?...

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Mountain Characters

Mt. Hood Skibowl to Dedicate a Run to Bill Johnson

The late, great downhill racer Bill Johnson will be honored Saturday, March 19 at Skibowl with a memorial celebration and the dedication of a ski trail to the first American male ski racer...

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Environment

The Enduring Errors of Wildfire Suppression

Russ Plaeger and Casey Gatz may not agree on many things when it comes to the forests of Mt. Hood, but they do share the perspective that 100-plus years of stopping every wildfire has...

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Weather News

Winter Roars Back with another Foot of Fresh

Temperatures plunged from the high 50s to the mid-20s this week on Mount Hood to enable another foot of fresh powder on top of a well-compacted 10-foot base....

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Business

The High Life

Randa Shahin and Josh Larkin make an excellent team. They’ve been together for about five years now, and they are well known on Mount Hood for their snow skills, their adventure dog...

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Accidents and Rescues

Missing (and later Found) Climber on Mount Hood Got Lost Descending the South Side

UPDATE: Rescue teams have found and saved 51-year-old Christian Houck of Seattle, who got disoriented while dropping down from above Palmer on the south side of Mount Hood and failed to...

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Resorts

Ski Resorts Try Again to Update Oregon Laws

Oregon ski resort operators are making a second attempt to update state laws for ski areas this legislative session after a similar bill failed to win political support last year....

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Culture/Style

Cranking Away at the Tune Shop

It’s Friday morning at the Next Adventure tune shop, and Greg Coulter and his team are cranking through one pair of skis after another, drilling holes, tweaking bindings, grinding bases,...

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News

Ski Racing Great Bill Johnson Dies at 55

Bill Johnson, the great and fearless ski racer who grew up shredding Mount Hood and went on to win the first-ever U.S. gold medal in the Olympic downhill, died yesterday at the age of 55...

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