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Culture/Style

Shred Hard this Season, Ladies!

What happens when you gather a group of some of the most bada** women in the NW region, have them join forces in the middle of an incredible up-n-coming ski manufacturing company’s...

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Accidents and Rescues

Crag Rats Celebrate 90 Years of Volunteer Rescues

Fog hung low in the Hood River Valley on a late October day. The changing leaves of oaks and maples threw bright splotches of red and orange on the wet fall canvass of the Mount Hood...

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Mountain Characters

Petr the Crazy Czech and his 100-Mile-an-Hour Arctic Man Ski Adventures

For years I’ve been hearing about Petr Kakes, the legendary speed skier who runs the Warming Hut and the ski shop at Ski Bowl....

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Culture/Style

1,082 Reasons to Join Us at Snowvana

1,000 lift ticket giveaways. 5 all-resort Snowvana Season Passes. 17 Concourse Level booths. 39 Arena Level booths. 4 Rocking Bands. 8 of Oregon’s greatest drink specialists. 9 ski...

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Mountain Characters

Dale Crockatt’s Mountain Photographs Find a Home at the Mt. Hood Museum

Dale Crockatt had two final wishes regarding the mountain he loved when he died from cancer at age 57. He wanted to donate thousands of his photographs to the Mt. Hood Museum, and he wanted...

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Transportation

Introducing the New and Hopefully Improved Hwy. 26

The $25 million Mt. Hood Safety Project is just about complete, so expect fresh asphalt and a new concrete barrier to prevent cross-over head-on collisions. As for whether the improvements...

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Mountain Characters

‘A Special Kind of Crazy’: The Mount Hood Community Mourns the Death of Mike Heffernan

Mount Hood’s one and only Mike Heffernan died on Friday, August 19 after suffering severe injuries in a motorcycle crash on the mountain. He was 53....

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Camps

Extreme Heat Warning: Please Proceed to Snow for Summer Shred Session

Stuck in a lazy mid-August rut with an extreme heat warning for Western Oregon forecasting too much torpor for my well-being, I decided to dig out the boards and gain some altitude for my...

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News

Snowvana Pre-Winter Bash to Launch Oct. 21-22 in Portland

A celebration to jump-start the 2016-17 snow season on Mount Hood is set to make its debut at the Memorial Coliseum the weekend of October 21-22....

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Mountain Characters

R.I.P. Leming: A Tribute to a Fallen Friend

Creating heroes by glorifying their deaths from their adventurous pursuits has never made sense to me. As a climber I have had a few near death experiences, but personally I have never...

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