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Resorts

Skibowl opens its summer season with seven days a week of mountain biking, alpine sledding and other activities

Mt. Hood Skibowl’s 26th summer season officially opened Saturday, June 14 and will run seven days a week through Labor Day....

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Transportation

Five things you should know about ODOT’s $25 million US 26 project

If you plan on driving up to Mount Hood on US 26 this summer or any of the next three summers, you should probably know a few key details about the $25 million Mt. Hood Safety Project...

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Camps

High Cascade Snowboard Camp launches its 25th summer on Mount Hood

More than 1,000 campers and some of the top snowboarders in the world will be rolling through Mount Hood this summer as High Cascade Snowboard Camp celebrates its 25th year of summer...

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News

Thanks for a Great Year One!

A little more than a year ago, I was reporting on health care for the Portland Business Journal and I interviewed Rocky King, the executive director of Cover Oregon. Rocky was a lively,...

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Culture/Style

The roots of summer training on Mount Hood reach back to at least 1953

Each summer on Mount Hood, some of the hottest racers, snowboarders and free skiers in the world congregate at Timberline to take advantage of the longest snow season in North America. Ted...

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Resorts

Meadows extends Nordic skiing into June

Mt. Hood Meadows will offer 3.5 kilometers of cross country skiing around the resort’s base area for three days in June as the snow base holds firm going into summer....

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Environment

Environmental group attacks Timberline over the use of salt

It takes work for Timberline to maintain its status as the ski and snowboard resort with the longest-running snow season in North America. It also takes a lot of salt....

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Resorts

Spring gives way to summer on Mount Hood, and the lifts keep on spinning at Timberline

The 2014 spring season at Timberline ended on Memorial Day, May 26, but lifts will keep spinning on Mount Hood through the summer and up to Labor Day....

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Accidents and Rescues

59-year-old man air-lifted to safety after falling several hundred feet into a fumarole on Mount Hood

Rescue climbers assisted by a Blackhawk helicopter pilot with the Oregon Army National Guard managed to find and save 59-year-old Michael Adams of Tualatin after he slipped on the ice and...

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Accidents and Rescues

Recovery teams have retrieved the body of fallen climber Robert Cormier

After a complicated 17-hour mission, recovery teams from the Hood River Crag Rats and Portland Mountain Rescue have managed to find and retrieve the body of Robert Cormier, the Catholic...

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