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Freestyle

Warning from a Mount Hood Cliff-Dropper: Please Be Aware, Because I Really Don’t Want to Land on You (or your children)

If you are a regular at Mt. Hood Meadows, maybe you know Wilson Brown. With his super-long dreads and big-air launches, Wilson is a well-known character in the parks and at the Mazot....

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Kids Racing

The Transformation of Cooper Spur

What do you get when several hundred of the most hard-core ski families on Mount Hood descend on a quaint little throwback of a resort with limited indoor plumbing?...

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High School Snowboarding

Crowds, Craziness and the Pursuit of DAVE

Head Judge Frost: “DAVE.” Me: “DAVE?” Head judge Frost: “DAVE.”...

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High School Alpine Racing

High School Racers Shred the Gates Come Rain, Sleet or Snow

The high school season racing is out of the starting gates and ripping into 2016 with hundreds of high-energy competitors and all sorts of crazy Mount Hood weather....

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Racing

Racing Returns to Stadium, Dogleg and Reynolds

With a 56-inch snow base at 4,000 feet as of early January, Mt. Hood’s premiere ski racing runs are back in action after two years of frustration and improvisation for the racing...

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Alpine Olympics/World Cup

#GirlPower: Mt. Hood-Raised Jackie Wiles Gets a Timely Boost from Lindsey Vonn

Jacqueline Wiles soared through the ranks of ski racing from the Mount Hood Mitey Mites to the Sochi Olympics, but when the U.S. Ski Teams were announced last month in Colorado, she...

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High School Snowboarding

Washington High School Riders Are More than Welcome to Compete on Mount Hood

When a parent asked Ben Beavon whether Washington kids are allowed to compete in high school snowboarding comps on Mt. Hood, he couldn’t think of a reason why they shouldn’t. So he...

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Freestyle

The Sammy C Project will make its debut in Portland at the Roseland Nov. 20

Sammy Carlson’s long-awaited film collaboration with Teton Gravity Research will make its world debut Friday, November 20 at the Roseland Theatre in downtown Portland....

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Freestyle

Summer Shredders make the most of melting snow at High Cascade Snowboard Camp

The recent heat wave has not been kind to the summer snow scene on Mount Hood, but that hasn’t stopped snowboard campers from enjoying some quality air and rail time at High Cascade...

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Racing

That year when the National Ski Championships were held on Mount Hood

For a while now, I’ve been hearing bits and pieces about how the National Ski Championships were held on Mount Hood in 1939, but I’ve never really been able to picture it in my...

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