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Guest Opinion

Why hosting the Winter Olympics would be good for Portland, and good for the Olympics

Portland, Oregon. You may know it as Portlandia, but for Portlanders, one of the benefits of living in the #1 city in the United States for 2013 according to Movoto.com is the accessibility...

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Environment

Mount Hood lands a high-speed charging station for electric vehicles

Break out your EVs if you got ’em, because Mount Hood now has a fast-charging station for electric vehicles at the Skibowl West parking lot. Will anyone use it?...

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News

Anyone out there interested in bringing the Winter Olympics to Portland in 2026?

Matthew Subotnick is a 42-year-old lifelong Oregonian with a massive dream: to bring the Winter Olympics to Portland in 2026....

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News

Mount Hood training was part of the formula for a dozen Olympic medalists

The Sochi Winter Olympics of 2014 were far from perfect, but in the end they were a very good thing for winter sports – and for Mount Hood’s reputation as a key training...

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News

The top 10 most popular Shred Hood articles (so far)

A little over a year ago, Bjorn van der Voo and I secured the domain name Shred Hood and started building a community news site to cover skiing and snowboarding on Mount...

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Culture/Style

Ski the Glade day offers us the opportunity to connect with a rich Mount Hood tradition

Once a year, on the first Saturday in March, we can experience skiing the way it was done before there were ski lifts on Mt. Hood....

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News

Seven feet of snow transforms the Mount Hood winter season

A relentless series of winter storms has blanketed Mount Hood with seven feet of snow in 10 days, rescuing the winter season and sending patrol crews scrambling to open new terrain safely....

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Environment

The Big Ooze: New research on Mount Hood’s hot and cool magma mix suggests the next eruption won’t blast the mountain to pieces

Every once in a while the smell of rotten eggs wafting over from Devil’s Kitchen serves as a reminder that Mount Hood is a volcano that has erupted before, and will erupt again. What...

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News

Monster storm switches from rain to snow to blanket Mount Hood with powder

Intense weather pounded Mount Hood all weekend, soaking skiers and snowboarders with heavy rain Saturday before rewarding them Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with deep, fresh snow that...

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